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Kingdom of Kush

c. 1070 BCE – c. CE 350 / kingdom in Nubia (modern-day Sudan), northeast Africa
Organization kingdom Q241790
Kingdom of Kush
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Summary

Kingdom of Kush is a kingdom[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of kingdom entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25,751 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Kingdom of Kush[3]
  • Instance of: historical country[4]
  • Capital: Napata[5], Meroë[6]
  • Commons category: Kingdom of Kush[7]
  • Said to be the same as: Cushan[8]
  • Inception: 2180 BC[9]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 350[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kingdom of Kush[11]
  • Described by source: Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[12], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from the Kingdom of Kush[14]
  • Name in kana: クシテ[15]
  • Different from: Äthiopien[16], Kish[17]
  • Position held by head of the organization: King of Kush[18]
  • Name: ⲉϭⲱϣ[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
  • P14541: 2EnHRa[21]

Why It Matters

Kingdom of Kush has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Piye Shabaka Taharqa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11h ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-10-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'be', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ce', 'cv', 'da', 'de',
    Spanish cultural heritage thesauri id → contextosculturales/1000686
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Spanish cultural heritage thesauri id: contextosculturales/1000686"
  2. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    P14541 → 2EnHRa
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 25w ago · Torquatus · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dissolved → —
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +0350-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Inception → —
    Local thumb → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Pleiades id: 827790769"
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