Kandake

Kandake, kadake or kentake (Meroitic: š¦²š¦·š¦²š¦” kdke), often Latinised as Candace (Ancient Greek: ĪšĪ±Ī½Ī“Ī¬ĪŗĪ·, Kandakē), was the Meroitic term for a queen or queen mother of Kingdom of Kush. In some cases, she may have been sister or close female relative of the king of Kush, and due to matrilineal succession, could play a central role in royal inheritance, making her a queen mother. She had her own court, probably acted as a landholder and held a prominent secular role as regent. A kandake who ruled in her own right bore in addition the title qore, the same title carried by male rulers. Contemporary Greek and Roman sources treated it, incorrectly, as a name. The name Candace is derived from the way the word is used in the New Testament (Acts 8:27).

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