Before revision: often Latinised as Candace (, Kandakē), was the Meroitic term for the sister of the king of Kush who, due to the matrilineal succession, would bear the next heir, making her a queen mother.
After revision: often Latinised as Candace (, Kandakē), was the Meroitic term for the sister of the king of Ethiopia who, due to the matrilineal succession, would bear the next heir, making her a queen mother.