Crossword-Solution: MEROE 5 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Its capital, Meroe located on the upper Nile, developed into a thriving commercial and industrial city.

XXIV The Ethiops next which Meroe doth breed, That sweet and gentle isle of Meroe, Twixt Nile and Astrabore that far doth spread, Where two religions are, and kingdoms three, These Assimiro and Canario led, Both kings, both Pagans, and both subjects be To the great Caliph, but the third king kept Christ’s sacred faith, nor to these wars outstepped.

XXIII On the right quarter stood the Indian grim, With Tisipherne and all the king’s own band; But where the left wing spread her squadrons trim O’er the large plain, did Altamoro stand, With African and Persian kings with him, And two that came from Meroe’s hot sand, And all his crossbows and his slings he placed, Where room best served to shoot, to throw, to cast.

LIV The first he met was Asimire, his throne That set in Meroe’s hot sunburnt land, He cut his neck in twain, flesh, skin and bone, The sable head down tumbled on the sand; But when by death of this black prince alone The taste of blood and conquest once he fand, Whole squadrons then, whole troops to earth he brought, Things wondrous, strange, incredible he wrought.

Midway between them are the fountains of the Nile." (Herod., II., chapter 28.) And see "Paradise Regained," IV., 70: -- "Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, "Meroe, Nilotick isle;..." (32) Baetis is the Guadalquivir.