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Axum polity
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294899766
APP
2002-02-12
INP
2002-02-12
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UPD
2012-07-20
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Axum polity
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MIS
BR. ASAR. The first recorded kingdom in Ethiopia grew around Aksum during the third century BC. According to many, Aksum was an offshoot of certain Semitic kingdoms of southern Arabia, and it eventually controlled the greatest ivory market in eastern Africa. Ethiopia influenced the nearly contemporary empire of Meroe in Sudan. Over the next few centuries, Aksum encroached more and more on Meroe until, when Christianity became the state religion in the 4th century AD, Aksum conquered the Sudanese kingdom.
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294899766
UDC
340.141.1Axum
SN
250-ca. 950. Location: around the border of what is today Ethiopia and Sudan, on the Tigre Plateau.
MRF
321Aksum
UF
Aksum Empire
Axum Empire
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