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Meroë

Meroë is the alternative form of Meroe.

Meaning of Meroe

Proper noun

Meroe

  1. An ancient city on the east bank of the Nile.
    • 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.1981, Thomas T. Spear, Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa, →ISBN, page 19

Questions about Meroë

What is Meroë the alternative form of?
Meroë is the alternative form of Meroe.

Words near Meroë in the dictionary

  1. meroxenes
  2. merozoite
  3. merozoites
  4. merozygote
  5. merozygotes
  6. Meroë
  7. merparent
  8. merparents
  9. merpentan
  10. merpeople
  11. merperson

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