Axum

Axum (historically), properly Aksum (by modern conventions of transliteration from the original Ge'ez), is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the long lived Kingdom of Axum or Aksum, a naval and trading power that ruled from the region ca. 400 BC into the 10th century—nearly a millennium and a half, or half again as long as the Roman Republic and Empire combined. The kingdom was occasionally referred to in medieval writings as "Ethiopia".
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