"Meroe" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, Thomas T. Spear, Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
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        "An ancient city on the east bank of the Nile."
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          "Nile",
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        {
          "word": "Meroic"
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          "word": "Meroite"
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          "word": "Merotic"
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          "word": "Merowe"
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          "word": "Meroë"
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          "word": "Μερόη"
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          "word": "𐦨𐦡𐦷𐦡𐦥𐦢"
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          "word": "𐦦𐦡𐦷𐦡𐦥𐦢"
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        "Meroë"
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      "word": "𐦨𐦡𐦷𐦡𐦥𐦢"
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      "code": "xmr",
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      "word": "𐦦𐦡𐦷𐦡𐦥𐦢"
    }
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  "word": "Meroe"
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