ʿEzānā
Solomon Gebreyes
WikiData Item | Q379898 |
Names
ዔዛና፡ ʿEzānā
Birth
325
Period of Activity
He was a king of ʾAksum↗ reigned between 330 and 365/70. He was the first Aksumite king who was converted to Christianity. The prosperity and power of ʾAksum↗ reached its zenith during his time.
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Names
- birth: ዔዛና፡ gez
Dates
Period of activity: 330–370
Occupation
king
Residence
Faith
Aksumite EOTC
Nationality
Aksumite
Text Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Text Bibliography
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Schneider, R. 1976. ‘L’inscription chrétienne d’Ezana en écriture sudarabe’, Annales d’Éthiopie, 10 (1976), 109–117.
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Uhlig, S. 2001. ‘Eine trilinguale ʿEzana-Inschrift’, Aethiopica, 4 (2001), 7–31.
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Bernand, É., A. J. Drewes, and R. Schneider 1991. Recueil des inscriptions de l’Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite, Introduction de Fr. Anfray, I: Les documents (Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1991).
Secondary Bibliography
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Sergew Hable Selassie 1972. Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 (Addis Ababa: United Printers, 1972). page 12-13, 15, 27, 31, 44, 69, 78, 81, 91-95, 100, 103-105, 107-109, 112, 123-124, 126, 143, 267
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Avanzini, A., N. Nebes, W. W. Müller, G. Fiaccadori, S. A. Frantsouzoff, and A. Gori 2007. ‘Inscriptions’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 152a–167b.
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Hahn, W. 2005. ‘ʿEzana’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 478b–480b.
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Munro-Hay, S. 1988. ‘The Dating of Ezana and Frumentius’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 32 (1988), 111–127 (DOI: 10.2307/41299728).
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