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    Church, and the Beta Israel Jewish community. Hawulti Obelisk is an ancient pre-Aksumite Obelisk located in Matara, Eritrea. The monument dates to the...
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    scripts in vocalization, as they are also abugidas, and the Kingdom of Aksum was an important part of major trade routes involving India and the Greco-Roman...
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    Erythraean Sea, §4 According to the Periplus, the ruler of Aksum was Zoscales, who, besides ruling in Aksum also held under his sway two harbours on the Red Sea:...
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    fourth century AD was preceded by an invasion from the Ethiopian Kingdom of Aksum and the rise of three Christian kingdoms: Nobatia, Makuria and Alodia. Makuria...
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    Roger D. (10 April 2008). The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780521684972. Hasselbach-Andee...
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    Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae) was located there, as was an obelisk imported from Egypt that formed the pointer (gnomon) of a horologium. With...
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    maritime vessel known as the 'beden' to transport their cargo. The Kingdom of Aksum was an important trading nation originating from Northern Ethiopia in northeastern...
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa. An Ethiopian folk etymology recorded in the Book of Aksum traces the name to an "'Ityopp'is", supposed to be a son of Cush. Dʿmt or...
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    ISBN 9781108334068. Hung, Hsiao-chun; Carson, Mike T.; Bellwood, Peter; Campos, Fredeliza Z.; Piper, Philip J.; Dizon, Eusebio; Bolunia, Mary Jane Louise A.; Oxenham...
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  • based in the city of Meroë until the fourth century CE. The Kingdom of Aksum, centered in present-day Ethiopia, established itself by the 1st century...
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