• Thumbnail for Ezana of Axum
    instead of Ethiopic characters. Ezana (Ge'ez: ዔዛና, ‘Ezana, unvocalized ዐዘነ ‘zn), (Ancient Greek: Ἠεζάνα, Aezana) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum (320s...
    9 KB (978 words) - 05:55, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for King Ezana's Stele
    King Ezana's Stele is a 4th century obelisk in the ancient city of Axum, in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The monument stands in the middle of the Northern...
    4 KB (367 words) - 19:14, 10 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Aksum
    written in the Old South Arabian language Sabaic. In the 4th century, Ezana of Axum promoted the Geʽez script and made Geʽez an official state language...
    72 KB (8,412 words) - 20:57, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Axum
    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...
    36 KB (4,281 words) - 00:47, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Obelisk of Axum
    the 19th century, of the three major "royal" stelae, only King Ezana's Stele remained erect, shown in the print "The Obelisk at Axum" of Henry Salt (1780–1827)...
    18 KB (1,861 words) - 21:36, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of abunas of Ethiopia
    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...
    14 KB (973 words) - 12:23, 27 October 2024
  • consort and regent of the Kingdom of Axum. She was married to king Ella Amida (Ousanas). She was widowed in c. 330, and her son, Ezana of Axum, succeeded her...
    5 KB (499 words) - 04:56, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ezana Stone
    The Ezana Stone is an ancient stele still standing in modern-day Axum in Ethiopia, the centre of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum. This stone monument, that...
    13 KB (1,894 words) - 03:51, 15 June 2024
  • regnal lists. Monarchs who were Christian, beginning with the reign of Ezana of Axum (historical) and/or Abreha and Atsbeha (traditional).   Monarchs who...
    43 KB (1,224 words) - 01:31, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
    believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana the first Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Axum (Present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia), during the...
    13 KB (1,453 words) - 15:30, 31 October 2024