Queen Candace

Candace Amanirenus was Queen of Kush, the Kingdom on the southern border of Egypt.
She fought a war against the Roman Armies in Egypt for five years known as the Meroitic War (27-22 BCE).

Strabo describes the Meroitic War against Kush as lasting 5 years, by Queen Candace against the Roman Empire.
26 BCE
- The Prefect of Egypt, Aelius Gallus, marched south and invaded the Kushan Kingdom but was obliged to fall back due to epidemics.
23 BCE
- As a result of this weakness, Candace Amanirenus the Queen of Kush, prepared to invade Egypt and approached the Frontier at Elephantine Island with an Army.
22 BCE
- The new Prefect of Egypt, Gaius Petronius, hastily reinforced the depleted Legions, marched up the Nile and invaded Kush where he sacked Napata, Capital of the Kushans.
This ended any threat from the south for almost three centuries.

Napata (Karima), Sudan