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  Civilizations in Africa: Axum
However, in the fourth century, Ezana, who was a folllower of Axumite religion, converted to Christianity under the tutelage of a Syrian bishop named Frumentius.
Ezana declared Axum to be a Christian state, thus making it the first Christian state in the history of the world, and began actively converting the population to Christianity.
Axum, however, remained untouched by the Islamic movements across Africa.
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 Ezana of Axum - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Ezana of Axum (also spelled Aezana), was ruler of the Axumite Kingdom (c.
A surviving letter from the Arian Roman Emperor Constantius II is addressed to Ezana and his brother Sazanas, and requests that Frumentius be sent to Alexandria to be examined for doctrinal errors; Munro-Hay assumes that Ezana either refused or ignored this request.
Ezana is also credited for erecting several structures and obelisks.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ezana   (478 words)

  
 Informat.io on Ezana Stone
The Ezana stone is an artifact from the ancient Kingdom of Aksum.
From 330 to 356 AD King Ezana ruled the ancient Aksumite kingdom that is now known today as Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Yemen on the northeast corner of Africa.
Ezana fought against the Nubians and recorded his victories on stone written in Ge'ez (the ancient Ethiopian language), Sabaean (South Arabian) and Greek praising God for his victories.
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 Ezana Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Axum was the predecessor kingdom of modern Ethiopia and was located in the northern part of the country.
Ezana's fifth and last known inscription pays tribute to the Christian god for the first time, and it goes on to describe his very important conquest of the ancient city of Meroë in northern Sudan.
Ezana is also remembered as having been a great builder, and he may have been responsible for the erection of the great obelisks still visible in the town of Axum.
www.bookrags.com /biography/ezana   (513 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Older than Egypt is Ethiopia
AXUM: This most celebrated state of Ancient Ethiopia could, in its heyday, be compared in grandeur with the empires of Rome, Persia and Ancient China.
Axum's rulers assumed the title of Negust Nagast, King of Kings, and started minting coins that provide an interesting chronology of the rulers of Axum.
They were taken to Axum, became tutors of the future king, and later Frumentius left Ethiopia for Alexandria and asked the Coptic Patriarch of Egypt to send a bishop to head the nascent Ethiopian Church.
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 ETHIOPIA
In A.D. 350, King Ezana of Axum defeated Nubia and annexed its territory.
The competition for trade between Axum and the Nubian capital at Meroe was the reason for the war.
Ezana's words were:"I sent warnings to them, and they would not listen to me and refused to stop their evil deeds and heaped insults on me and then took flight.
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 The Ultimate Axum - American History Information Guide and Reference
Axum, also Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia, located at 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.
The kingdom was at its height under king Ezana, baptized as Abriha, in the 300s AD (which was also when it officially embraced Christianity).
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 also spelled Axum
However, in the fourth century, Ezana, who was a folllower of Axumite religion, converted to Christianity under the tutelage of a Syrian bishop named Frumentius.
Ezana declared Axum to be a Christian state, thus making it the first Christian state in the history of the world, and began actively converting the population to Christianity.
So the Ethiopians, unlike other Christians, really saw themselves as inheriting the covenants that Yahweh entered into with his chosen people (as a side note, the Ethiopic Church claims to have the Ark of the Covenant which is the chest in which the Decalogue was kept by the Hebrews).
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 Sacred Sites of Ethiopia
The remote town of Axum was the earliest historical center where the followers of Muhammad freely exercised their religion in an atmosphere of peace without the fear of persecution.
Scholars believe that Axum was selected as a place of asylum because there existed a close commercial link between the kingdom of Axum and the city-state of Mecca long before the rise of Islam.
Axum began to decline in the early decades of the 7th century following the rise and rapid expansion of the Muslim Arabs throughout the Middle East.
www.sacredsites.com /africa/ethiopia/sacred_sites_ethiopia.html   (3766 words)

  
 Axum at AllExperts
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Axum has an estimated total population of 47,320 of whom 20,774 were males and 21,898 were females.
Axum is considered to be the holiest city in Ethiopia and is an important destination of pilgrimages.
Significant religious festivals are the T'imk'et Festival (known as the Epiphany in western Christianity) on 7 January and the Festival of Maryam Zion in late November.
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 Kingdom Of Axum
Axum was the most advanced civilization during this time in the northeastern part of Africa.
The first king of Axum was Ezana I. King Ezana I was the paramout king of a large empire that included Axum, Arabia, Saba, Abyssinia, Beja, and Moroe.
Ezana, one of the greatest of the Aksumite rulers, conducted a number of successful campains in the early fourth century, and described them in a series of stone inscriptions which were written in Sabaean, Ge'ez and Greek.
www.geocities.com /ps5kingdoms/Axum   (835 words)

  
 Download Axum full version + crack and keygen (serial)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezana declared Axum to be a Christian state, thus making it the first Christian state in the history kept by the Hebrews).
Modern Axum is the capital of the Abyssinian province of Tigré, and nestles in a kloof, or and long after resident at Axum, extended their sway over the Sabæan.
AXUM, the site of Ethiopia's most ancient city, is today a small town blissfully ignorant of surrounded by dry hills, modern Axum does not easily yield evidence of.
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 Ezana of Axum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezana of Axum was ruler of the Axumite Kingdom from about 320 to 350 AD.
Ezana succeeded his father Ella Amida while still a youth and his mother, Sofya served as regent.
He was the first ruler of Axum to convert to Christianity, largely to curry favour with the Byzantines who were an important trading partner and ally against the Persians.
www.centipedia.com /articles/Ezana   (160 words)

  
 Axum
It was the center of the Axumite Kingdom, which emerged around the time of the birth of Jesus Christ and declined in the 12th century with the rise of the southern Ethiopian kingdom.
The kingdom was at its height under king Ezana in 300 A.D. when it was influenced by Christianity.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Axum claims to possess the Ark of the Covenant.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/a/ax/axum.html   (143 words)

  
 Axumite_Kingdom
The Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from ca.
Frumentius established a number of Christian churches, and when Ezana became king he made Christianity (Monophysite) the official religion of Aksum.
The presence of coins also simplified trade, and was at once a useful instrument of propaganda and a source of profit to the kingdom.
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The Axum obelisk, a 1,700-year-old stone monolith, measuring 24-metres (78 feet) high and weighing 180 tons, is returning home after more than six decades adorning a square in the Italian capital, Rome.
Ezana removed the crescent and disk motif from Axum's coins, replacing it with the Christian cross, and laid the foundations for the Christian conversion of the whole of Ethiopia.
Axum continued to flourish until the 6th Century, when the rise of the Persian Empire and conquests by Muslim Arabs cut the city off from its international trade network and contact with other Christian countries.
philadelphians.50megs.com /obelisk.html   (659 words)

  
 African Axum
Axum Ethiopian Restaurant serve a variety of Ethiopian dishes to eat in or take away at their restaurant.
Axum The Iron Age South of the Sahara Ghana The Islamic Invasions The Almoravids Mali Songhay The...
Axum is considered to be one of the most powerful and prosperous kingdoms in the known world,...
www.cordah.co.uk /african_axum.html   (295 words)

  
 Axum information - Search.com
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 Adwa mountains.
It was the centre of the Axumite Kingdom, which emerged around the time of the birth of Jesus and declined in the 10th century due to the shift of the power centre of the Ethiopian Empire further south.
The kingdom was at its height under king Ezana, baptized as Abreha, in the 300s AD (which was also when it officially embraced Christianity).
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 AncientWeb.org: Ancient Ethiopia, The Art Culture and History of Ancient East Africa
Upon the king's death, Frumentius was appointed regent of the realm by the queen, and instructor of her young son, Prince Ezana.
A few years later, upon Ezana's coming of age, Aedesius and Frumentius left the kingdom, the former returning to Tyre where he was ordained, and the latter journeying to Alexandria.
He returned to the court and baptized the King Ezana, together with many of his subjects, and in short order Christianity was proclaimed the official state religion.
www.ancientweb.org /Ethiopia/index.htm   (3159 words)

  
 Aksum - Chs. 1-3. by Dr. Stuart Munro-Hay.
In about 356AD the emperor Constantius II wrote to Ezana trying to persuade him to submit Frumentius to doctrinal examination by his own appointee to Alexandria, the bishop George of Cappadocia, who, with the emperor, subscribed to the Arian heresy.
Certainly the discovery of four large-scale elite residences at or near Axum and believed to date to this phase would suggest that probably by the end of the period, Axum was beginning to take on that function.
Even in the reigns of Ezana or Kaleb, groups near to the centre of the kingdom, like the Agwezat, continued to rebel under their own kings (Ch.
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 Ezana of Axum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezana of Axum was ruler of the Axumite Kingdom from about 320 to 350 AD.
Ezana succeeded his father Ella Amida while still a youth and his mother, Sofya served as regent.
He appointed his childhood tutor, a Syrian Christian Frumentius, who Ezana would later make head of the church.
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Axum was the creation of the ADBASSA, a number of Semitic immigrants, and other Kushitic peoples who pushed the natives farther in-land.
The Christianity of Ezana could be tolerated by the Mbog because it could be considered by its practitioners as the cult of one of our ancestors.
Um, Axum played a significant role in northeastern Africa, but was slowly transformed into an Ethiopian state as its people began to move southward and make their presence felt among among Kushitic people, forebears of the present-day Bassa people, the Hausa, Yorubas, and Bamanas.
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 Axum and Debre Damo - Travels in Northern Ethiopia - Stellae and Monastary
The guide is included in the fee although in Axum as opposed to Lalibela(100 entrance + 150 guide) you are expected to tip the guide at the end of the day.
In Axum however we found a high-end hotel which catered to foreigners and served meat.
During the Axum empire, King Ezana adopted christianity in the 4th century.
www.scrambledeggen.com /trips/Axum.html   (1104 words)

  
 King Ezana
Ezana of Axum representing his conversion to Christianity.
Ezana in the fourth century, the change was...
Ezana, together with many of his subjects, and in short order Christianity was proclaimed the official state...
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 Ethics of Africa and America 30 BC-1453 by Sanderson Beck
Goods were traded for ivory and tortoise shells at Adulis, the port city for Axum, and along the coast to the south slaves, incense, and Indian cinnamon could be obtained.
Christianity was made the state religion when his successor King Ezana was converted by the captured Syrian Frumentius, who had become his tutor and later was appointed bishop of Axum by the bishop of Alexandria.
The army of Axum under Ezana made the caravan trade routes safer, destroying his enemies by sacking cities, taking prisoners, ruining crops, and confiscating livestock.
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However, in the fourth century, Ezana, who was a follower of Axumite religion, converted to Christianity under the tutelage of a Syrian bishop named Frumentius.
So the Ethiopians, unlike other Christians, really saw themselves as inheriting the covenants that Yahweh entered into with his chosen people (as a side note, the Ethiopic Church claims to have the Ark of the Covenant which is t he chest in which the Decalogue was kept by the Hebrews).
Two Christian states north of Axum, Maqurra a n d Alwa, survived until the thirteenth century when they were finally forced by Muslim migration to become Islamic.
www.wsu.edu /~dee/TEXT/africa.rtf   (6715 words)

  
 Acidophilus Related Terms
One inscription found at Axum, states that he conquered the nation of the Bogos, and returned thanks to his father, the god Mars, for his victory.
Expeditions by Ezana into the Kingdom of Kush at Meroe in Sudan may have brought about its demise, though there is evidence that the kingdom was experiencing a period of decline beforehand.
Despite this reverse, under Ezana and Kaleb the kingdom was at its height, benefitting from a large trade, which extended as far as India and Ceylon, and were in constant communication with the Byzantine Empire.
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 Brief History of Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 525, Axum invaded Yemen to protect the Christian population being persecuted by a Judaic king, but, according to a common version, its forces were expelled by the Sasanid Empire.
In the 7th century, Axum expanded at the expense of its neighbors, but the kingdom was unstable.
As Islamic influence extended to Eritrea (8th-9th centuries), Axum was abandoned and the center of Ethiopian political power moved south, first to Roha (10th-13th centuries), then west to the region of Gondar.
www.worldhistoryplus.com /history/e/Ethiopia_brief.htm   (1132 words)

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