Axum

Axum is a city of 56,000 in the Tigray region of , just south of , with which it shares the language of Tigrinya. It was for nearly 800 years the administrative centre of one of the great empires of the old world along with those of Rome, Persia and China and remains the ecclesiastical capital of the Ethiopian church.
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Latitude
14.1221° or 14° 7′ 20″ north
Longitude
38.7322° or 38° 43′ 56″ east
UN/LOCODE
ET AXU
Open location code
7G6W4PCJ+RV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 298296175
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
344420
Wiki­data ID
Q5832

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Axum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aksoem”
  • Afrikaans: “Aksum”
  • Amharic: “አክሱም”
  • Arabic: “أكسوم”
  • Armenian: “Աքսում (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Աքսում”
  • Asturian: “Aksum (ciudá)”
  • Asturian: “Aksum”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aksum”
  • Basque: “Aksum”
  • Basque: “Axum”
  • Belarusian: “Аксум”
  • Bengali: “আক্সুম”
  • Breton: “Aksoum”
  • Bulgarian: “Аксум”
  • Burmese: “အက်ဆမ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Axum”
  • Cebuano: “Āksum”
  • Chinese: “阿克苏姆”
  • Chinese: “阿克蘇姆”
  • Croatian: “Aksum”
  • Czech: “Aksúm”
  • Dagbani: “Axum”
  • Danish: “Axum”
  • Dutch: “Aksum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكسوم”
  • Esperanto: “Aksumo”
  • Estonian: “Aksum”
  • Finnish: “Aksum”
  • French: “Aksoum”
  • French: “Axoum”
  • French: “Axum town”
  • Galician: “Axum”
  • Galician: “vila de Axum”
  • Georgian: “აქსუმი”
  • German: “Aksum”
  • German: “Axum”
  • German: “Weltkulturerbe Axum”
  • Greek: “Αξούμ”
  • Greek: “Αξώμη”
  • Greek: “Αυξούμη”
  • Gujarati: “એક્સમ”
  • Hausa: “Axum”
  • Hebrew: “אקסום”
  • Hindi: “अक्सुम”
  • Hungarian: “Akszúm”
  • Inari Sami: “Aksum”
  • Indonesian: “Aksum”
  • Italian: “Aksum”
  • Italian: “Axum”
  • Italian: “regno di Axum”
  • Japanese: “アクスム”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕ್ಸುಮ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಕ್ಸಮ್”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Axum”
  • Korean: “악숨”
  • Kotava: “Aksum”
  • Kurdish: “Aksum”
  • Latvian: “Aksuma”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Axum”
  • Lithuanian: “Aksumas”
  • Maithili: “अक्सुम”
  • Malay: “Axum”
  • Malayalam: “അക്സൂം”
  • Maltese: “Aksum”
  • Maltese: “Axum”
  • Maltese: “Belt ta‘ Aksum”
  • Marathi: “अक्सम”
  • Mingrelian: “აქსუმი”
  • Nepali: “अक्सुम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aksum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aksum”
  • Norwegian: “Aksum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Axom”
  • Persian: “اکسوم”
  • Polish: “Aksum”
  • Portuguese: “Aksum”
  • Portuguese: “Axum”
  • Romanian: “Axum”
  • Russian: “Аксум”
  • Russian: “город Аксум”
  • Scots: “Axum”
  • Serbian: “Аксум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aksum”
  • Sinhala: “අක්සුම්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Aksumm”
  • Slovak: “Aksum”
  • Slovenian: “Aksum”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکسوم”
  • Spanish: “Aksum”
  • Spanish: “Axum”
  • Swahili: “Axum”
  • Swedish: “Aksum”
  • Tamil: “அக்ஸும்”
  • Telugu: “అఖ్సుమ్”
  • Thai: “อักซุม”
  • Turkish: “Aksum”
  • Ukrainian: “Аксум”
  • Urdu: “اکسوم”
  • Venetian: “Axum”
  • Vietnamese: “Aksum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aksum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Axum”
  • Welsh: “Axum”
  • Western Frisian: “Aksum”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿克苏姆”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿克蘇姆”
  • Zulu: “Axum, Itiyopiya”

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