The Beja also include the Beni-Amer people, who have retained their native Beja language alongside Hedareb.

Approximately 77, 000 speakers of Bedawi ( a Beja language ) live in the Eastern Desert.

The Beja speak Beja or To Bedawie, an Afro-Asiatic language usually classified as Cushitic, but sometimes seen as an independent branch.

Most Beja speak the Beja language, however certain sub-clans do not, the Beni Amers for instance speak a variety of Tigre, while most of the Halengas speak Arabic.

Even though the influence of Arabic cannot be denied, Beja speakers do not consider that their language is today an endangered language.

True enough Arabic is considered as the language of modernity, but it is also very low in the scale of Beja cultural values as it is a means of transgressing social prohibitions.

Beja is still the prestigious language for most of its speakers because it conforms to the ethical values of the community.

Their prominent crown of fuzzy hair ( called tiffa in their language ) has characterized the Beja for centuries.

Beja ( also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie ) or North Cushitic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the southern coast of the Red Sea, spoken by about two million nomads, the Beja, in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea.

* Beja language, language spoken by the Beja people

Arab influence was not significant until a millennium or so ago, but it has since led the Beja to adopt Islam and genealogies that link them to Arab ancestors, to arabize their names, and to include many Arabic terms in their language.

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There are six clearly valid groups of languages which are usually included in the Cushitic family ( Beja, Agaw, Sidamic, Lowland East Cushitic, Dullay, and South Cushitic ), as well as a few poorly classified languages ( Yaaku, Dahalo, Aasax and Kw ' adza, Boon, and the Cushitic element of Mbugu ).

The French linguist Didier Morin ( 2001 ) has made an attempt to bridge the gap between Beja and another branch of Cushitic, namely Lowland East Cushitic languages and in particular Afar and Saho, the linguistic hypothesis being historically grounded on the fact that the three languages where once geographically contiguous.

: III. D. 1 Northern Cushitic: Beja ( Bedauye )

The Beja are not Arabic speakers: their language, Tu Bedawi, is of Cushitic origin and is related to Somali and Afar.

There are over thirty dams on the river basin, the largest of which is the Alqueva Dam, near Moura, in the Beja District, responsible for the largest reservoir in Europe.

It is delimited by Lisbon District and Santarém District on the north, Évora District on the east, Beja District on the south and the Atlantic Ocean on the west.

Convent where Sóror Mariana Alcoforado lived ( now is a regional museum ); in Beja ( Portugal ) | Beja, Portugal.

Beja () is a city in the Beja Municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal.

The municipality is composed of 18 parishes, and is the capital of the Beja District.

The climate in Beja ( the hottest district capital Portuguese city ) is influenced by the distance from the coast.

The very facts that the highest moral and cultural values of this society are in one way or the other linked to their expression in Beja, that Beja poetry is still highly praised, and that the claims over the Beja land are only valid when expressed in Beja, are very strong social factors in favour of its preservation.

The Associação de Futebol de Beja ( Beja Football Association ) is one of the 22 District Football Associations that are affiliated to the Portuguese Football Federation.

Associação de Futebol de Beja, commonly referred to as AF Beja, is the governing body for football in the district of Beja.

In the 10th century Islam spread and gained popularity among the Beja people, though some pre-Islamic beliefs continued until the 19th century.

In most of the territory of Alentejo, the climate is Hot-Summer Mediterranean ( Csa ) but there is a part, in the South of Beja District that has Semi-Arid climate, where temperatures are really hot.

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The title had no original connection to being one for next heirs of the throne-King John had a second son, and soon a third, but the daughter kept Beira and the boys received dukedoms ( Braganza and Beja ).

The Beja people () are an ethnic group found mostly in Sudan, but also in parts of Eritrea, and Egypt.

* Beja people, an ethnic group in northeast Africa

* Beja Congress, a group formed primarily of Beja opposing the government of Sudan

Although some Arabs figure in the ancestry of the Beja, the group is mostly descended from an indigenous population, and they have not become generally arabized.

The largest group was the Hadendowa, but the Bisharin had the most territory, with settled tribes living on the Atbarah River in the far south of the Beja range and nomads living in the north.

The Amarar, living in the central part of the Beja range, seemed to be largely nomads, as were the second largest group, the Bani Amir, who lived along the border with northern Ethiopia.

The Banu Kanz ( Arabic " Sons of Kanz ") were a group of Rabi ' ah Arabs who emigrated to Egypt and Sudan, eventually dislocating the Beja and penetrating into the desert east of the Nile around Aswan.

They are a subgroup of the Beja people who are bilingual in Beja and Arabic.

In the Middle Ages, they were known as Beja, and convoyed pilgrims from the Nile valley to Aidhab, the port of embarkation for Jeddah.

Much of the surrounding area of Beja capitulated to al-Ala, and in fact rallied under the Abbasid banners against Abd al-Rahman.

The Algarve was dominated completely by a muladí coalition led by Sa ' id ibn Mal, who had expelled the Arabs from Beja, and the lords of Ocsónoba, Yahya ibn Bakr, and of Niebla, Ibn Ufayr.

In some other languages, such as Beja and Ket, the copula takes the form of suffixes that attach to a noun but are distinct from the person agreement markers used on predicative verbs.

With the rise of Islam in the 7th century the power of Aksum declined and the Kingdom became isolated, the Dahlak archipelago, northern and western Eritrea, came under increasing control of Islamic powers based in Yemen and Beja lands in Sudan. The Beja were often in alliance with the Umayyads of Arabia who themselves established footholds along stretches of the Eritrean coastline and the Dahlak archipelago while the Funj of Sudan exacted tribute from the adjacent western lowlands of Eritrea.

They are a nomadic and pastoralist people, related to the Tigray-Tigrinya people of Eritrea and Ethiopia and to the Beja people of Sudan.

The Beja in Eritrea constitute under 5 % of local residents.

The latter include Afar, Beja, Blin and Saho.

Beja people | Beja nomads.

The ethnic groups of Sudan are Arabs 70 %, others being Arabized ethnic groups of Nubians, Copts, and Beja.

The Scandinavian raiders sack Sevilla, Niebla, Beja and Lisbon.

* The efforts of the Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, to repopulate the western Andalusian city of Beja begin.

The Portuguese king Sancho II continues his offensive southward and takes Beja, Juromenha, Serpa and Moura.

* The Portuguese troops conquer Beja from the Almohads.

From the reign of king Manuel I, the title of Duke of Beja was given to the second son of the monarch.