Axum
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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
Kingdom of Aksum
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The Kingdom of Aksum 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 Sudan, it extended at its height into much of South Arabia during the reign of Kaleb of Axum.
An Axumite stela
The Obelisk of Axum
14th century Islamic portrayal of the First Hijrah