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	Kingdom of Aksum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aksum began to decline in the 7th century AD, and the population was forced to go farther inland to the highlands, eventually being defeated c.
		The Kingdom of Aksum at its height extended across portions of present-day Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, Yemen, northern Somalia, Djibouti, and northern Sudan.
		Aksum traded with India and Rome (later Byzantium, a strong cultural influence on Aksum), exporting ivory, tortoise shell, gold and emeralds, and importing silk and spices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Axumite_Kingdom (887 words)

	African Empires
		Aksum's port city on the Red Sea, Adulis, bustled with activity.
		Its agriculture and cattle breeding flourished, and Aksum extended its rule to Nubia, across the Red Sea to Yemen, and it had extended its rule to the northern Ethiopian Highlands and along the coast to Cape Guardafui.
		A third empire was centered in the kingdom of the Kongo, which dominated areas such as Loango, Kakong, Ngoi and Kisama.
	fsmitha.com /h3/h15-af.htm (3621 words)

	Aksum - Chs. 1-3. by Dr. Stuart Munro-Hay.
		Aksum is still today a sorting and distribution centre for the frankincense produced in the region, and it is not unlikely that the coastal stations visited by the ancient Egyptians acquired their incense from the same sources.
		Aksum appears on a map by Pizzigani in 1367 as Civitas Syone, the City of Zion, appropriately enough in view of its cathedral dedicated to Mary of Zion.
		Aksum may have been obliged by necessity to tolerate an imperfect situation for some time, until through a policy of gradual replacement by Aksumite officials of hereditary rulers with a hold on local loyalties, the separate identity of the smaller entities was slowly eroded away.
	users.vnet.net /alight/aksum/mhak1.html (18263 words)

	Adulis - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It was the port of the Kingdom of Aksum, located on the coast of the Red Sea.
		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.
		This port was the principal staging area for Kaleb's invasion of the Himyarite kingdom of Dhu Nuwas around 520.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Adulis (446 words)

	Ancient Ethiopian City of Aksum
		The kingdom of Aksum was at the height of its power between 100-700 AD.
		For a while in the sixth century Aksum was powerful enough to expand across the Red Sea to enclose the region of Saba (modern Yemen) within its borders.
		The decline of Aksum in the eight century may have been largely to do with their loss of trade to the Persians and Arabs.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/aksum.html (1266 words)

	The magnificence of Aksum: Revisiting Ethiopian civilization
		The kingdom had produced a huge labor force engaged in stone, metal, and glass works; these artisans, who played a vital role in the making of the kingdom and later in the empire of Aksum, were collectively known as Tebib or “skillful”.
		The magnificence of Aksum is attested by credible historical evidence on the extent of its trade, its literature, architecture, and governance.
		Aksum was honored both during the Old and the New Testament and it is a great country a living proof of history where Ethiopian kings accomplished great deeds and fulfilled their obligations.” - Haile Selassie I, Tir 30, 1957 EC webmaster@ethiomedia.com
	www.ethiomedia.com /newpress/magnificent_axum.html (2916 words)

	Ethiopian Treasures - Queen of Sheba, Aksumite Kingdom - Aksum
		After Yeha had fallen the town of Aksum was established during the reign of the Queen Sheba (known as Saba or Makeda by Ethiopians) in 500 BC.
		Menelik then returned to Aksum, amongst those accompanying him was Azariah the son of the high priest (Zadok) of the temple of Jerusalem.
		Aksum remained the capital where the coronations of emperors and empress were held until the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie.
	www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/aksum.htm (1587 words)

	Profile - Ethiopia
		It was home to the powerful Christian kingdom of Aksum in the first centuries AD and became a Christian empire in the 15th century.
		The kingdom was ruled by the Solomonid dynasty, so called because the kings claimed direct descent from the biblical king Solomon and the queen of Sheba.
		Early in the 10th century the Solomonid dynasty was overthrown and replaced by the Zagwe dynasty, the ruling family of a region on the central plateau known as Lasta.
	www.inadev.org /profile_-_ethiopia.htm (5303 words)

	Global Heritage Fund - Site Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The powerful Kingdom of Aksum dominated the trade route between Rome and India from its strategic location near the Red Sea, controlling the flow of gold, ivory, animal skins and grain in the region.
		This fascinating city is believed to have been the birthplace of the Queen of Sheba, and the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.
		Aksum also played a leading role in the conversion of Ethiopia to Christianity in 330 AD.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /sites/EMEA/africa/aksum_a.html (75 words)

	No such thing as an Ethiopian 'Jew'. The people identified is the Cushites.. northern Sudan to southern Egypt. Africans ...
		Others take kingdoms that were in Ethiopia and then by their own magical mouth, assert this is what the scriptures defined.
		The kingdom of Nubia stretching from Aswan S to the junction of the Nile near modern Khartoum.
		In addition to Coffin Texts, Middle Kingdom religious literature comprises numerous hymns to the king and various deities—including a long hymn to the Nile River—and ritual texts.
	www.arabisraelites.com /cush.htm (1367 words)

	E Wein -- The Sunbird
		Telemakos is the grandson of two noble men: Kidane, member of the imperial parliament in the African kingdom of Aksum, and Artos, the fallen High King of Britain. He is also a remarkable listener and tracker, resolute and inventive in his ability to hide in plain sight.
		Now his aunt Goewin, Britain’s ambassador to Aksum, needs his skill. Deadly plague has overtaken her own country; in order to keep Aksum safe, the emperor has accepted Goewin’s advice and declared a quarantine. No one is allowed to enter or leave—yet, even with this precaution, disease and death continue to spread.
		Aksum is threatened by the plague and salt traders who would defy the quarantine and spread the plague farther.
	www.egatland.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /eew1_sunbird.htm (1544 words)

	Kingdom Of Axum
		Cush, with its Egyptian-like civilization on the Nile, and the flourishing, irrigation-based culture of Sheba (or Saba, modern north Yemen) togheter contributed in about the 2D century AD to the rise of the kingdom of Aksum.
		During the centuries of the ascent of Aksum and the city-states, the pattern of life of innumerable interior Africans began to alter drastically.
		The kingdom of Axum profited from the strategic location of its two main cities, the port of Adulis on the Red Sea and the upland capital city of Axum.
	www.geocities.com /ps5kingdoms/Axum (835 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Aksum
		Although legend has it that the Kingdom of Aksum (Axum) traces it's origins from the Sabaean Kingdom in Yemen, it is believed that it emerged locally.
		It emerged as a Kingdom based on trade in the 2nd century A.D.; ADALIS on the Red Sea was an important port city.
		The Kingdom of Aksum expanded by the means of conquest, as EZANA'S INSCRIPTION of ca.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eastafrica/aksum.html (535 words)

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		They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia.
		At the kingdom's height, its rulers held sway over the Red Sea coast as far north as southern Egypt to Berbera in present-day Somalia in the south, and inland as far as the Nile Valley in modern Sudan.
		From its capital on the Tigray Plateau, Aksum was in command of the trade of ivory with Sudan.
	www.axumcafe.com /axum.html (626 words)

	Aksum -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The modern town of Aksum (pop., 1994: 27,148), once the kingdom's capital, is a religious centre best known for its antiquities.
		When the Ethiopian empire of Aksum emerged into the light of history at the end of the 1st century AD, it was as a trading state known throughout the Red Sea region.
		These Semitic invaders, possessing a well-developed culture, established the kingdom of Aksum, which, by the end of the 4th century AD, ruled the northern stretches of...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9354834 (450 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		The Ethiopian branch of Christianity first emerged in the kingdom of Aksum in the northern corner of the Ethiopian highlands.
		Fremnatos was rewarded for this by being consecrated Bishop of Aksum at a ceremony in Alexandria.
		As told in the Old Testament, she travelled from Aksum to Jerusalem to meet the famed King Solomon (King of the Israelites) in Jerusalem.
	bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/8chapter2.shtml (957 words)

	Askalon Programming Environment for Grid Computing
		Aksum automatically searches for performance bottlenecks based on the concept of performance properties.
		Aksum is highly customizable, which allows the user to build or define his own performance tool.
		Although Aksum may seem the acronym of something, it is in fact the name of an ancient kingdom.
	www.dps.uibk.ac.at /projects/aksum (247 words)

	Meroe and Aksum - History for Kids!
		Egypt was more powerful in war, but the people of Meroe and Aksum had things that the Egyptians needed, and so there was always a lot of trade between the two regions.
		By the New Kingdom period in Egypt, about 1600 BC, there were also wars between Nubia and Egypt.
		But after the collapse of the New Kingdom - about 1000 BC - the Kushite kingdom began to get stronger again, and by 748 BC, the Kushites attacked and conquered Egypt (as the 25th Dynasty).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/africa/history/meroe.htm (592 words)

	History - Somalia - Africa
		The history of the region now included in Somalia dates from antiquity, when the land was known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt.
		From the 2nd to the 7th century ad parts of the area belonged to the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum.
		Arab tribes in the 7th century settled along the coast of the Gulf of Aden and established the sultanate of Adal, which centered on the port of Zeila.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/somalia/history.htm (119 words)

	History of ETHIOPIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The kingdom of Aksum: from the 5th century BC
		He is consecrated in Alexandria (the beginning of a lasting link between Ethiopia and the Coptic church of Egypt).
		Tradition says that Frumentius is a young Christian, captured and brought to Aksum, who persuades the king to allow Greeks to build churches in his kingdom.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab92 (573 words)

	Rule from the highlands (from Eritrea) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		These Semitic invaders, possessing a well-developed culture, established the kingdom of Aksum, which, by the end of the 4th century
		Beginning in the 12th century, however, the Ethiopian Zagwe and Solomonid dynasties held sway to a fluctuating extent over the entire plateau and the Red Sea coast.
		Eritrea's central highlands, known as the mereb melash (“land beyond the Mereb River”), were the northern frontier region of the Ethiopian kingdoms and were ruled by a governor titled bahr negash (“lord of the sea”).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-37665 (1077 words)

	Ethiopia-txts
		He himself, moreover, did the same and so encouraged the others, attracting them with his favor and his benefits, providing them with whatever was needed, supplying sites for buildings and other necessaries, and in every way promoting the growth of the seed of Christianity in the country.
		Axum in the Sixth Century A.D. Despite the drama of the Christianization of Nubia, geography dictated that the later Roman Emperors would seek the alliance of Axum and not the Nubian kingdoms in their struggle with Sassanid Persia for hegemony in the Red Sea basin.
		Particularly noteworthy is Nonnosus' connection of the monsoon rains in the highlands of Ethiopia with the Nile flood, the most accurate account of the causes of the flood to be found in any classical writer.
	www29.homepage.villanova.edu /christopher.haas/Ethiopia-txts.htm (2549 words)

	Ancient Civilizations: Ancient: Africa: Ethiopia UFOseek directory for Ancient Civilizations/Ancient/Africa/Ethiopia
		Connections between Arabia and Abyssinia, Queen Sheba, Sabean religion, Aksum, conversion to Christianity, Lalibela's churches, accomplishments of some of Gonar's rulers and emperors of the modern era.
		The Kingdom of Aksum's height of power, rule over Meroe and southern Arabia, literature, architecture, and coins of Aksum, and establishment of Christianity.
		Aksum had a powerful connection between Rome and the world.
	www.ufoseek.com /Ancient_Civilizations/Ancient/Africa/Ethiopia (126 words)

	Lonely Planet - On the Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Horn of Africa is a fascinating but relatively little-known part of the world, which possesses all the allure of the "Dark Continent," but also the tremendous history and culture of ancient civilisations.
		The region formed part of the fabled Land of Punt, and later, the third-century kingdom of Aksum.
		Wander around the tombs, palaces, and stelae of the ancient kingdom of Aksum, "one of the last great civilisations to be revealed to modern knowledge"
	www.lonelyplanet.com /journeys/authintvw_ethiopia2 (547 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- TREASURES IN THE DUST -- Jul. 04, 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HIDDEN 7,226 ft. high on the Abyssinian plateau, all but inaccessible to the outside world, lies a forgotten city in a land where, according to Homer, the sun is supposed to set.
		The holy city of Aksum, spiritual capital of the Ethiopian Coptic Church, was once a flourishing market on the trade routes of Greece and Rome, is now reduced to a clutter of huts and crumbling relics in the mountains 350 miles north of Addis Ababa.
		Yet in Aksum, Ethiopians believe, Sheba once reigned, and in Aksum for nearly 3,000 years Abyssinian kings and rulers of the ancient kingdom of Aksum were crowned.After the...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,869549,00.html (160 words)

	Lightning strikes twice in Rome: UNESCO
		When a bolt of lightning chipped the top off the Aksum obelisk at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in the night of May 27, the Italian government didn’t expect to be hit as well.
		This time round the bolt did not come from the sky, but from the Ethiopian government, that blames Italy for the damage.
		In 1937 Mussolini’s armies pillaged the 24-metre-high Yemenite-style funerary monument from the ancient kingdom of Aksum, where it had stood since the early 4th century.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=6601&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (151 words)

	Eritrea - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A country of northeast Africa bordering on the Red Sea.
		Once part of the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, it became an Italian colony in 1890 and was named after the Roman term for the Red Sea, Mare erythraeum.
		Captured by the British during World War II, Eritrea later became a federated part (1952) and then a province (1962) of Ethiopia, from which it gained its independence in 1993.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/e/e0199300.html (79 words)

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