Candace

Like the name pharaoh for earlier Egyptian kings, Candace is a hereditary name of the queens of Meroe, an extensive kingdom in Upper Nubia, ranging from just south of Aswan and the First Cataract of the Nile in modern-day Egypt to the north and well into Ethiopia to the south. Pronunciation: KANDA-see.

Candace in biblical times, a title of queen mothers who ruled Ethiopia; in Acts 8:27, the apostle Philip converts and baptizes the chamberlain of one of these queens.