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Macrobians

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The suggestion of macrobia being in the Somali region is misleading since most ancient writers are referring to Sudan as macrobia: William Smith in his ‘Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography’, 1854, also believed that the long-lived Ethiopians (or Macrobians) must have been the inhabitants of central and southern Sudan:

If, then, we do not yield up the Macrobii to myth or fable altogether, we must seek for them in some district nearer Aegypt. Whatever tribe or region Cambyses intended to subdue, gold was abundant, and brass, or rather copper, scarce among them. Now the modern inhabitants of Kordofan (15° 20′--10° N. lat., 28°--32° E. long.) are commonly called Nobah, and Nob is an old Aegyptian word for gold. Again, the Macrobii were singularly tall, well proportioned and healthy; and Kordofan has, from time immemorial, supplied the valley of the Nile with able-bodied and comely slaves of both sexes (Hume, ap. Walpole, Turkey, p. 392).

This is more accurate; Somalia certainly was not macrobia and any attempts to suggest this will mislead researchers on the topic. ProfZumali (talk) 06:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Declined Please use an edit request on the article talk-page which is not protected. Lectonar (talk) 09:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC)