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  2. Kingdom of Aksum - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Aksum (Ge'ez: አክሱም, romanized: ʾÄksum; Sabaean: 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣, ʾkšm; Ancient Greek: Ἀξωμίτης, romanized: Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, and spanning present-day Djibouti and ...

  3. List of kings of Axum - Wikipedia

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    A queen who, according to tradition, sacked Aksum and was responsible for the end of the kingdom. Some lists place her after Dil Na'od, therefore marking the end of the Axumite line, while other lists place her before him and present her reign as an interruption to the line before it was restored after her death. No. 21 on Dillmann's list C. [74]

  4. Axum - Wikipedia

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    Axum, also spelled Aksum (/ ˈ ɑː k s uː m / ⓘ), is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents (as of 2015). [2] It is the site of the historic capital of the Aksumite Empire .

  5. Ezana of Axum - Wikipedia

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    Ezana (Ge'ez: ዔዛና, ‘Ezana, unvocalized ዐዘነ ‘zn), (Ancient Greek: Ἠεζάνα, Aezana) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum (320s – c. 360 AD).One of the best-documented rulers of Aksum, Ezana is important as he is the country's first king to embrace Christianity and make it the official religion.

  6. Kaleb of Axum - Wikipedia

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    Stuart Munro-Hay opines that by this expedition Axum overextended itself, and this final intervention across the Red Sea, "was Aksum's swan-song as a great power in the region." [13] It is also apparent that his reign was marked by a major integration of the Agaw tribes of what are today the districts of Wag and Lasta into his own kingdom.

  7. Bringing a tyrannical Ethiopian queen and her twins to life

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    Aksum was a wealthy and influential monarchy that at its height spanned what is now northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, southern Saudi Arabia and western Yemen. It lasted almost 1,000 years, from ...

  8. Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion - Wikipedia

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    The church is located in the town of Axum, Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia, near the grounds of Obelisks of Axum. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana the first Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Axum (present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia), during the 4th century AD, and has been rebuilt several times since ...

  9. Obelisk of Axum - Wikipedia

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    The 'obelisk'—properly termed a stele [a] or, in the local languages, Tigrinya: hawelti; and church Ge'ez: hawelti —is found along with many other stelae in the city of Axum in modern-day Ethiopia. The stelae were probably carved and erected during the 4th century CE by subjects of the Kingdom of Aksum, an ancient Ethiopian civilization ...