Axum, also spelled Aksum, is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents. It is the site of the historic capital of the Aksumite Empire.
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Image: Stelae in Main Stelae Field Axum (Aksum) Ethiopia 02 (8702223458)
Image: Maryam Sion in Axum Nebenbau mit der Bundeslade 2010
German "Aksum Expedition", February 1906. From left: Theodor von Lüpke, Dr. Erich Kaschke, Gebre Selassie (Governor of Tigray), Enno Littmann and Daniel Krencker
The Tigray, officially the Tigray National Regional State, is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan (Tegaru), Irob people and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fourth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely populated of the 11 regional states.
Axum Stele in the city Axum.
Aksumite gold coins.
Mekelle palace of Emperor Yohannes IV (emperor of the whole Ethiopian Empire).
Memorial in Mekelle to more than 60,000 TPLF fighters who died and over 100,000 fighters who were injured in the overthrow of the Marxist Derg regime in 1991.