Axumis

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Axumis is an ancient Greek term for modern day Aksum. The ancient city was the capital of the kingdom of Axumis in northern Ethiopia (over the modern day provinces of Tigre and Eritrea). Its trading port was Adulis.

The kingdom stood from the first to seventh centuries, A.D., and in the second century it extended eastward and northward over modern day Somalia and part of Arabia, and, in the west, it harried Meroe. Axumis was the primary exchange point and controller of access to India for the European kingdoms and empires, reaching its highest power in the fourth and fifth centuries.

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• Morkot, Robert G. "Axumis" in Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. London: OUP, 2003. p. 227.