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As far as I understand it, what is generally referred to as the Kingdom of Kush doesn't seem to have an attested 'native' name; 'Kush' is originally from Hebrew sources, the Egyptians referred to it as 'Punt' fairly frequently, Romans and Greeks referred to it as Ethiopia/Aethiopia and also Nubia.

Are any of these related to any known native ethnic identities or name for their own civilization? And if there is no evidence for any, do we have any knowledge as to what the Aksumites who came afterwards had called them, or what modern inhabitants of the region refer to the Kingdom of Kush as?
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