A(u)xoume
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 13, 2024 10:50 AM
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History
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UWHS
Present-day Aksum in Ethiopia. The center of the Aksumite Kingdom, a maritime trading power that flourished from the first to the tenth centuries AD. The city was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39303
14.1338504591, 38.7212920204
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of World Heritage Aksum (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- A(u)xoume connection Aethiopia (unspecified date range)
- Northern Stelae Field located at A(u)xoume (unspecified date range)
cultural landscape, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 A3 A(u)xoume
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Aksum? ETH
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'A(u)xoume: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39303> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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