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Axum: Encyclopedia - Axum

Axum, properly Aksum, is a city in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, located at 14°07.475′N 38°43.975′E near the base of the Adoua mountains. It was the center of the Axumite Kingdom, which emerged around the time of the birth of Jesus and declined in the 12th century due to the shift of the power center of the Ethiopian Empire further south. Seventy-five percent of the people in the city are Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. The remainder of the population is Sunni Muslim and P'ent'ay. Due to its historical value, the ruins ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Axum - Axum and Islam
Although Axumite Muslims have attempted to build a mosque in this most holy of Ethiopian towns, Orthodox residents have replied that they must be allowed to build an Ethiopian Orthodox church in Mecca (officially Makkah) if the Muslims are to be allowed to build a mosque in Axum. The connection of Axum with Islam is very old. According to ibn Hisham, when Muhammad faced oppression from the Quraish clan, he sent a small group that included his daughter Ruqayya and her husband Uthman ibn Affan, whom Ashma ibn Abjar, the king of Axum, ga ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Axum - Sites of interest

The major Aksumite monuments in the town are stelae; the largest number lie in the Northern Stelae Park, ranging up to the 33 metre-high Great Stele (believed to have fallen during construction) and the tallest standing 24m high King Ezana's Stele. They are believed to mark graves and would have had cast metal discs affixed to their sides, which are also carved with architectural designs. The Gudit Stelae, unlike the northern area, are inte ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Obelisk of Axum

The Obelisk of Axum is a 1700-year-old, 24-metre (78-foot) tall granite obelisk, weighing over 100 tonnes, carved in or around the 4th century AD by the Axumite Kingdom, an ancient Ethiopian culture. It was looted from the town of Axum (in modern-day Ethiopia) by the Italian army in 1937 during Mussolini's regime and taken to Rome to stand in front of the Ministry for Italian Africa (later the headquarters of the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization). In a ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Kingdom of Aksum

The Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from ca. 5th century BC to become an important trading nation by the 1st century AD. It converted to Christianity in 325 or 328 (various sources). It was founded by people who crossed from South Arabia (what is today Yemen). The kingdom started to decline in the 7th century AD, and the population was forced to go farther inland to the highlands, finally falling to the Zagwe dynasty in the twelfth century; but Yekuno Amlak, who ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Axum - Axumite kingdom and Orthodox Christianity

The kingdom of Axum had its own written language called Ge'ez, and also developed a distinctive architecture exemplified by giant obelisks. The kingdom was at its height under king Ezana, baptized as Abriha, in the 300s AD (which was also when it officially embraced Christianity). The Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum houses the Biblical Ark of the Covenant in which lies the Tablets of Law upon which the Ten Commandments are inscribed. This same church was the site Ethiopian emperors wer ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Zagwe dynasty

The Zagwe Dynasty ruled Ethiopia from the end of the Kingdom of Axum to 1270, when Yekuno Amlak defeated and killed the last Zagwe king in battle. Its best-known king was Gebra Maskal Lalibela, who is responsible for the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. Unlike the practice of later rulers of Ethiopia, Taddesse Tamrat argues that under the Zagwe dynasty the order of succession was that of brother succeeding brother as king, based on the Agaw laws of inheritance. Zagwe dynasty - History. The Zagwe dynas ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion (“Igzi’itne Maryam S’iyon Yeityop'iya Ortodoks Baytekristiyan” in the languages of Ethiopia) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the most important and one of the oldest churches of Ethiopia. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana, the first Orthodox Christian emperor of Ethiopia, during the fourth century AD. The church, in the town of Axum in Tigray Province, claims to contain the original Ark of the Covenant. According to tradition, Menelik I b ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Boast of Cassiopeia

The Boast of Cassiopeia is a story from Greek mythology, associated with Perseus. Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth. The story is set in the royal household of Aethiopia (not to be confused with Ethiopia, the modern name of Axum). King Cepheus (Greek for gardener), and queen Cassiopeia (Greek for cassia juice), had promised their daughter Andromeda (Greek for ruler of men) to the nobleman Phineus. Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the venge ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Abune Paulos

Ablune Paulos is Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church from 1992 to the present. His full title is "His Holiness Abune Paulos, Fifth Patriarch and Catholicos (re-ese Liqane Papasat) of Ethiopia, Echege of the See of St. Takla Haymanot and Archbishop of Axum." Patriarch Abune Paulos was born Gebre Igziabiher Wolde Yohannes in 1935 in the town of Adowa in the Province of Tigrai in northern Ethiopia. His family was long associated with the Abune Gerima monastery near the town, and he entered the monastery as a young ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - 1872

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1872 - Events. 1872 - January - April. January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Abebe Bikila

Abebe Bikila (August 7, 1932 - October 25, 1973) was a Ethiopian runner and two time Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia. A member of Emperor Haile Selassie's Imperial Guard, Abebe Bikila, born in Mout, Ethiopia, became a national hero after winning the Olympic gold medal in the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. At the Games held in Rome, Bikila ran the entire length of the marathon barefoot, setting a world record of 2 h 15 min 16.2 s. During the marathon, Bikila passed the Obelisk of Axum, which had been looted f ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - Adulis

Adulis is an archeological site in Eritrea, about 30 miles south of Massawa. It was the port of the Kingdom of Aksum, located on the coast of the Red Sea. Adulis - History. Pliny the Elder is the earliest writer to mention Adulis (N.H. 6.34), who misunderstood the name of the place, and thought its name meant that it had been founded by escaped Egyptian slaves. It is mentioned by the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a guide of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, which describes it as an emporium ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia - 1

1 - Births. Jesus, according to the anno Domini era created by Dionysius Exiguus in 525 as argued by one scholar, Georges Declercq, in Anno Domini (2000). Most scholars argue that Dionysius placed the birth of Jesus in 1 BC. 1 - Deaths. Zhao Feiyan, empress of Emperor Cheng of Han, forced to commit suicide (b. unknown) 1 - World Leaders. Areius Paianieus becomes Archon of Athens (AD 1-2) Caesar ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Kings of Axum - Kings during the zenith of the Kingdom of Axum

The following based on S.C. Munro-Hay, Aksum (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), pp. 67f inscriptions mention his son BYGT (vocalized as "Beyga" or "Beygat") ...

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - List of Abunas - Metropolitans of Ethiopia

unknown Yohannes (c. 820-840) Yaqob I (fl. mid 800s) Salama Za-'Azeb (fl. 800s) Bartalomewos (fl. 900s) Petros (920's) opposed by Minas and Fiqtor (vacant c. 940-970's) Daniel (fl. late 900's) Fiqtor (fl. 1000's) 'Abdun, claimant Sawiros (1077-1092) Giyorgis I (fl. 1090's) Mikael I (f ...

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List of Abunas, List of Abunas - Bishops of Axum, List of Abunas - Metropolitans of Ethiopia, List of Abunas - Patriarchs of Ethiopia 1951

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Kingdom of Aksum - Society Structure

The Aksumite people represented a mix of Cushitic speaking people in Ethiopia and Semitic speaking people in southern Arabia, who settled the territory across the Red Sea around 500 BC. The Aksumite kings had the official title negusa nagast - King of Kings. Aksumite kings traced their lineage to David, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This royal heritage was claimed by all emperors of Ethiopia. ...

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Kingdom of Aksum, Kingdom of Aksum - Geography, Kingdom of Aksum - Society Structure, Kingdom of Aksum - Foreign relations and economy, Kingdom of Aksum - Cultural achivements, Kingdom of Aksum - Bibliography

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - List of Star Wars systems - A

List of Star Wars systems - Abregado. The Abregado System orbits the star Anza and contains five planets, the third of which is Abregado-Rae. List of Star Wars systems - Aduba. The Aduba System contains six planets, including the habitable Aduba-3. List of Star Wars systems - Alderaan. The Alderaan System orbits the star of the same name and contains five planets. Alderaan, second in the system, and Delaya, third in the system, are both habitable. The system was reduced to four planets after Alderaan ...

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List of Star Wars systems, List of Star Wars systems - A, List of Star Wars systems - Abregado, List of Star Wars systems - Aduba, List of Star Wars systems - Alderaan, List of Star Wars systems - Al'har, List of Star Wars systems - Anoat, List of Star Wars systems - Axum, List of Star Wars systems - B, List of Star Wars systems - Bakura, List of Star Wars systems - Besh Gorgon, List of Star Wars systems - Bespin, List of Star Wars systems - Bilbringi, List of Star Wars systems - Brentaal, List of Star Wars systems - C, List of Star Wars systems - Chandrila, List of Star Wars systems - Chorax, List of Star Wars systems - Chorios, List of Star Wars systems - Cirius, List of Star Wars systems - Circarpous Major, List of Star Wars systems - Colu, List of Star Wars systems - Corellian, List of Star Wars systems - Corulus, List of Star Wars systems - Coruscant, List of Star Wars systems - Cularin, List of Star Wars systems - D, List of Star Wars systems - Dagobah, List of Star Wars systems - Doldur, List of Star Wars systems - E, List of Star Wars systems - Elrood, List of Star Wars systems - Empress Teta, List of Star Wars systems - F, List of Star Wars systems - Fest, List of Star Wars systems - G, List of Star Wars systems - Gamorr, List of Star Wars systems - Gorsh, List of Star Wars systems - H, List of Star Wars systems - Helska, List of Star Wars systems - Horuset, List of Star Wars systems - Hoth, List of Star Wars systems - I, List of Star Wars systems - J, List of Star Wars systems - Japreal, List of Star Wars systems - K, List of Star Wars systems - Karthakk, List of Star Wars systems - Kashyyyk, List of Star Wars systems - Kessel, List of Star Wars systems - Koros, List of Star Wars systems - L, List of Star Wars systems - Lybeya, List of Star Wars systems - M, List of Star Wars systems - Mustafar, List of Star Wars systems - N, List of Star Wars systems - Naboo, List of Star Wars systems - O, List of Star Wars systems - P, List of Star Wars systems - Polith, List of Star Wars systems - Pyrshak, List of Star Wars systems - Q, List of Star Wars systems - R, List of Star Wars systems - Riflorii, List of Star Wars systems - Rosp, List of Star Wars systems - Rederan, List of Star Wars systems - S, List of Star Wars systems - T, List of Star Wars systems - Taris, List of Star Wars systems - Tatoo, List of Star Wars systems - Telos, List of Star Wars systems - U, List of Star Wars systems - Utapau, List of Star Wars systems - V, List of Star Wars systems - W, List of Star Wars systems - X, List of Star Wars systems - Y, List of Star Wars systems - Yavin, List of Star Wars systems - Y'Toub, List of Star Wars systems - Z, List of Star Wars systems - Zug

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Ethiopia - History

The Kingdom of Aksum, the first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia, rose during the first century AD. The Persian religious figure Mani listed Axum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his time. It was in the early 4th century that a Syro-Greek castaway, Frumentius, was taken to the court and eventually converted king Ezana to Christianity, thereby making it official. For this accomplishment, he received the title "Abba Selama". At various times, including a period in the 6th century, Axum controlled most of moder ...

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Ethiopia, Ethiopia - History, Ethiopia - Politics, Ethiopia - Regions, Ethiopia - Geography, Ethiopia - Economy, Ethiopia - Demographics, Ethiopia - Languages, Ethiopia - Culture, Ethiopia - Miscellaneous topics

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Axum: Encyclopedia II - Kingdom of Aksum - Cultural achivements

The Kingdom of Aksum developed its own alphabet (Geez or Ge'ez). Under King Ezana, the kingdom adopted Christianity in place of its former polytheistic religion around AD 325. The Ethiopian (or Abyssinian) Church has lasted until the present day. It is still a Monophysite church, and its scriptures and liturgy are still in Ge'ez. Aksumite Christianity may be one of the foundations for the legend of Prester John. A legend has it that at that time, a foreign boy named Frumentius was made a slave of the royal court, and later a tu ...

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Kingdom of Aksum, Kingdom of Aksum - Geography, Kingdom of Aksum - Society Structure, Kingdom of Aksum - Foreign relations and economy, Kingdom of Aksum - Cultural achivements, Kingdom of Aksum - Bibliography

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