Kingdom of Aksum (redirect from Kingdom of Axum)
"Ethiopia". Aksumite dominance in the Red Sea culminated during the reign of Kaleb of Axum (514–542), who, at the behest of the Byzantine Emperor Justin I, invaded...
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Munro-Hay to comment that he was "the most famous of the Aksumite kings before Kaleb." In early life he considered himself a son of Ares, but later inscriptions...
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conquest by Aksum. In response to the persecution of Christians, Negus Kālēb dispatched a punitive expedition to Arabia Felix led by general Ḥayyān....
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Control of Adulis allowed Axum to be the major power on the Red Sea. This port was the principal staging area for Kaleb's invasion of the Himyarite kingdom...
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History of Ethiopia (section Axum)
('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...
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Frumentius (category Bishops of Axum)
died c. 383) was a Phoenician Christian missionary and the first bishop of Axum who brought Christianity to the Kingdom of Aksum. He is sometimes known by...
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Rahmanan and as "Victor" (corresponding to Aksumite description under Kaleb of Axum), and made use of Trinitarian formulae, Abraha began to only describe...
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earlier king of Axum of the same name (likely the same person as Abreha I). It is likely that this king is meant to be Zitana, father of Kaleb according to...
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these soldiers joined Abreha's rebellion upon arrival and killed Kaleb's relative. Kaleb sent reinforcements in another attempt to end the rebellion, but...
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capital, killing many and destroying the church there. The Christian King Kaleb of Axum learned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and...
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delivers a major blow for the Church against the Arian heresy. 500 Kaleb of Axum, Aksumite king responsible for the destruction of Himyar Antalas, Berber...
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Caesarea of Otranto Saint Reticius, bishop of Autun (4th century) Saint Kaleb of Axum, king (542) Saint Severin of Sanseverino, Bishop of Settempeda (545)...
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considered unlikely. A strong possibility exists that the Christian Kaleb of Axum, who had dispatched military contingents to fight against the Judaizing...
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of Najran. After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf's forces. They killed the king, allowing Kaleb to appoint Sumyafa Ashwa, a native...
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construction include the Tomb of the False Door, and the tombs of Kaleb and Gebre Mesqel in Axum. Most structures, however—such as palaces, villas, commoner's...
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harbor of the Adulitae" at the reign of King Kaleb. Arabian titles were experienced in South Arabia during Kaleb's reign; after his viceroy deposed by Jewish...
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Firminus, Count of Auvergne c. 555 or 558, deposed, restored, 560–571. Kaleb of Axum, said to have abdicated c. 520. 'Anbasa Wedem, in the 9th–10th century...
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Guntheuc, Queen of Orleans Justin I, Eastern Roman Emperor, 518-527 Kaleb of Axum, King of Ethiopia Sigismund of Burgundy, King of the Burgundians, 516-524...
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