Axum, also spelled Aksum (pronounced: /ˈɑːkˈsuːm/ ), is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents (as of 2015). It...

submarine Axum was an Adua-class submarine built in the 1930s, serving in the Regia Marina during World War II. She was named after an ancient city of Axum in...

Ancient Greek: Ἀξωμίτης, romanized: Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from...

officially as His Holiness Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of St. Tekle Haymanot. The current Abuna, Mathias,...

English as "emperor", dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, but was used in Axum by King Sembrouthes (c. 250 AD). However, Yuri Kobishchanov dates this usage...

Éon de l'Étoile (died 1150), Breton religious leader Eon of Axum, 5th-century King of Axum Eon Densworth (born 1938), former Australian rules footballer...

known mention of the Tekezé is in an inscription from Aksum of king Ezana of Axum, where he boasts of a victory in a battle on its lower banks, near "the ford...

('Aḥbāsh) in Sabaic and as Ḥabasha in Arabic. In the 15th-century Ge'ez Book of Axum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp'is. He was...

of the attack. It is observed during Axum massacre in the Tigray War where 750 people reportedly killed in Axum Tsion feast day celebrated on 30 November...

Eritrea to cross the Ethiopian border by rapidly reaching and occupying Adwa, Axum and Adigrat. The Italian attack on Ethiopia violated Article 16 of the Covenant...

Aksumite currency was coinage produced and used within the Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum) centered in present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia. Its mintages were issued and...

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church claims to possess the Ark of the Covenant in Axum. The Ark is kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary...

Church of Ethiopia, Ichege of the see of Saint Tekle Haymanot, Archbishop of Axum and one of the seven serving Presidents of the World Council of Churches...

down on 15 June 1935 and launched a year and four months later on 3 October 1936. Completed in January 1939, the ship was armed with a main battery of nine...

suppression of slavery in Ethiopia. October 15: The northern Italian army captures Axum. October 18: Britain assures Italy it will not take independent action in...

Axum. The old Fascist entered the city riding triumphantly on a white horse. However, the invading Italians he commanded looted the Obelisk of Axum and...

ancient times the territory of modern day Ethiopia included the Kingdom of Axum. In medieval times, a kingdom ruled by the Zagwe dynasty developed but was...

Revolution of 1974 when the last emperor was deposed. Earlier kings of the Dʿmt, Axum and Zagwe kingdoms are listed separately due to numerous gaps and large flexibility...

succeeded her after several of her own family. Three inscriptions discovered in Axum mention the names of two kings, Dabra Ferem and his son Hasani Dan'el, who...

alongside other cathedrals such as the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum. The cathedral bears the title "Menbere Tsebaot", or "Pure Altar". Built...

occupied the holy capital of Axum. De Bono entered the city riding on a white horse and then looted the Obelisk of Axum. To Mussolini's dismay, the advance...

scholars that Najashi gave shelter to the Muslim refugees around 615–616 at Axum. Bilal ibn Ribah, the first Muezzin, the person chosen to call the faithful...

from there expanded southward. The Persian religious figure Mani listed Axum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his time...

1213 1982 Steve Kuhn Quartet Last Year's Waltz ECM 1214 1982 James Newton Axum ECM 1215 1982 Steve Reich Tehillim ECM New Series; see: Tehillim ECM 1216...

Altopiani, Major Criniti, requested air support from the Italian forces in Axum and bolstered his garrison by deploying a squadron of light tanks. One tank...

1003–1058), wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia Gudit (fl. 960), queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit Zewditu I (1876–1930), queen...

while his grandfather is known as Kam. In the 15th-century Ge'ez Book of Axum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp'is. He was...

of Axum anecdotally said to have launched several military campaigns, destroying the Kingdom of Kush 525 Conquest of the Himyarite Kingdom by Axum. 570-578...

Hanover, Germany Israel Asper (1932–2003), Canadian media magnate Israel of Axum, Emperor of Ethiopia in the 6th century CE Israel Baker (1919–2011), American...

his own to withdraw and avoid being trapped. The II Corps advanced from Axum to an area thirty miles south of the town where forces of Ras Imru were known...