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To the ignorants who are reading Arabia fiction

Post by Mesob » 21 Nov 2021, 16:21

Only the ignorant Arab slave or "Abid" as they call them who is reading Arabia written fiction would deny the historical fact of the Kingdom of Adulis and later its own extended civilization at the majestic kingdom of Axum. Adulis is part of the Qohaytos, Bahrenagashs, the YiHas and the central highland Hamasienaits that stretched all the way to northern Gonder and Tigray.
The truth is ,
Adulis (Musnad: ‎𐩱 𐩵 𐩡 𐩪, Ge'ez: ኣዱሊስ, Ancient Greek: Ἄδουλις[1]) was an ancient city along the Red Sea in the Gulf of Zula, about 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of Massawa. Its ruins lie within the modern Eritrean city of Zula. It was the emporium considered part of the D’mt and Aksumite empires. It was close to Greece and the Byzantine Empire, with its luxury goods and trade routes. Its location can be included in the area known to the ancient Egyptians as the Land of the Gods, perhaps coinciding with the locality of Wddt, recorded in the geographical list of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.[2]


Here is from the — Periplus of the Erythraean Sea


Aksum Empire
Main article: Kingdom of Aksum
Coins of king Endybis, AD 227–235. British Museum. The left one reads in Greek "ΑΞΩΜΙΤΩ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ", "King of Axum". The right one reads in Greek: "ΕΝΔΥΒΙϹ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΥϹ", "King Endybis".

Aksum is mentioned in the Periplus as an important market place for ivory, which was exported throughout the ancient world:

From that place to the city of the people called Auxumites there is a five days' journey more; to that place all the ivory is brought from the country beyond the Nile through the district called Cyeneum, and thence to Adulis.
— Periplus of the 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: Adulis (near Massawa) and Avalites (Assab). He is also said to have been familiar with Greek literature:

These places, from the Calf-Eaters to the other Berber country, are governed by Zoscales; who is miserly in his ways and always striving for more, but otherwise upright, and acquainted with Greek literature.
— Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, §5[11]