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  2. Second migration to Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    Second migration to Abyssinia. This is a sub-article to Muhammad before Medina and Muhammad in Medina. Following the migration and return of the most Sahabas from the first migration to Abyssinia (Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and some did not return but left Abyssinia by sea for preaching overseas to east Asia), [1] the Muslims continued to suffer ...

  3. Migration to Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    The migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by ...

  4. Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    Abyssinia (/ æbɪˈsɪniə /; [1] also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. [2] The term was widely used as a synonym for Ethiopia until the mid-20th century and primarily designates the Amhara, Tigrayan and ...

  5. History of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    History of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa; [1] the emergence of Ethiopian civilization dates back thousands of years. Abyssinia or rather "Ze Etiyopia" was ruled by the Semitic Abyssinians (Habesha) composed mainly of the Amhara, Tigrayans and the Cushitic Agaw.

  6. Persecution of Muslims by Meccans - Wikipedia

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    The Migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijrah (Arabic: هِجْرَة hijrah), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where Muhammad 's first followers (the Sahabah) fled from the persecution of the ruling Quraysh tribe of Mecca.

  7. Ethiopian Empire - Wikipedia

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    For the commonly used exonym, see Abyssinia. The Ethiopian Empire, [ a ] historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, [ b ] was a sovereign state [ 16 ] that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak around 1270 until the 1974 coup d'état ...

  8. Kunyu Wanguo Quantu - Wikipedia

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    Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed by Matteo Ricci, Zhong Wentao and Li Zhizao, upon request of Wanli Emperor in Beijing, 1602. The 1602 Ricci map is a very large, 5 ft (1.52 m) high and 12 ft (3.66 m) wide, woodcut using a pseudocylindrical map projection showing China at the center of the known world. [2] It is the first map in Chinese to show the ...

  9. Ethiopia in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The first Muslims fled persecution in Arabia in 613 or 615, seeking refuge in the Kingdom of Aksum in an event known as the Migration to Abyssinia. [47] The Dahlak Archipelago, now part of Eritrea, came under Muslim rule in the early 8th century; the Muslims there constituted the first permanent Muslim population in Ethiopia.