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Meroe

Meroe

See also: Meroë

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Proper noun

Meroe

  1. Alternative form of Meroë
    • 1981, Thomas T. Spear, Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa, ISBN 0582646960, page 19:
      The ultimate origins of iron in east Africa, then, must remain conjectural, though a spread from Meroe up the Nile to the Lake Victoria region is the most plausable route at the moment, and Meroic furnaces and tool styles are similar to those in East Africa.