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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 ...
The 'obelisk'—properly termed a stele [a] or, in the local languages, Tigrinya: hawelt; 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 ...
Coordinates: 14°07′49″N 38°43′10″E. The dome and bell tower of the New Cathedral of Our Lady Mary of Zion. The Church of Our Lady, Mary of Zion[a] is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church which is claimed to contain the Ark of the Covenant. The church is located in the town of Axum, Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia, near the grounds ...
The Axum massacre (alternatively spelled Aksum, also called the Maryam Ts'iyon massacre) was a massacre of about 100–800 civilians that took place in Axum during the Tigray War. [4] The main part of the massacre occurred on the afternoon and evening of 28 November 2020, continuing on 29 November, with smaller numbers of extrajudicial killings ...
Axum, also spelled Aksum (pronounced: / ˈɑːkˈsuːm / ⓘ), 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. [ 3 ] Axum is located in the Central Zone of the Tigray Region, near the base of the Adwa mountains.
v. t. e. The history of Ethiopia in the Middle Ages[note 1] roughly spans the period from the decline of the Kingdom of Aksum in the 7th century to the Gondarine period beginning in the 17th century. [1] Aksum had been a powerful empire during late antiquity, appearing in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and mentioned by Iranian prophet Mani ...
Sylloge of Aksumite Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford: Ashmolean. ISBN 9781910807101. Henze, Paul B. (2000). Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia. London: Hurst & Company. ISBN 1-85065-522-7. Kropp, Manfred (2006). "Ein später Schüler des Julius Africanus zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in Äthiopien". In Wallraf, Martin (ed.).
The Northern Stelae Park in Axum in 2002, with King Ezana's Stele at the middle and the Great Stela lying broken. (The Obelisk of Axum was returned later.). This monument, properly termed a stele (hawilt or hawilti in the local Afroasiatic languages [which?]) was carved and erected in the 4th century by subjects of the Kingdom of Aksum, an ancient civilization focussed in the Ethiopian and ...