Axum
Episcopal see · Imperial capital
town in Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Approximate centre: 14.1167, 38.7333 · Pleiades 39303
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the royal city of the kings of Aksum — Ezana's court, and the seat of the kingdom that turned Christian in the fourth century
Seat of
Who is recorded here
- Frumentius ministry · AD 316
- Frumentius ministry · AD 347
- Frumentius death · AD 383
- Ezana birth
- Frumentius ministry
What happened here
- Conversion of Aksum AD 330
In art
About the place
Axum, also spelled Aksum, is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents. It is the site of the historic capital of the Aksumite Empire.
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