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This whole piece is so far from what is widely known in History. I suspect there are people from Eritrea who are trying to systematically rob somebody else's history. During the Aksumite Empire, there was nothing as Tigray Region or Eritrea. However, the records and the evidences show that the Empire was in what is today known as Ethiopia. Aksum is a town in Ethiopia, not Eritrea. Eritrea was a name given to a former province of Ethiopia By Italians Aksum was by no means an Eritrean civilization. A reader is advised to check some other more credible sources. To the writer: whatever your motive is, you are not doing a good service to the truth or to history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:700:700:6:BC4B:EC0D:9AE:5E34 ( talk) 13:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
The page "Niexemetes" is a redirect to the "Axum" article, but the Axum article doesn't mention Niexemetes. The term doesn't appear in the Axum page history either. The redirect page appears to have been created out of nothing; the term is neither explained nor referenced anywhere. This kind of defeats the purpose of the redirect. Would it useful to include a section on "Niexemetes" in the Axum article?
This article seems to always have referred to the modern site as a town, and still did even when the lead was just changed to make it a city. UNESCO calls it a town although the article also discusses the ancient city. One of the main scholars to study Ethiopia, Stuart Munro-Hay, someone whose works we use as sources in various articles, calls it a town. [1] As to other sources, both tourist guides and scholarly, eg [] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iUIJSxxVaI0C&pg=PA44&dq=Aksum+town+tourist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-_Kn7rNTgAhWBonEKHf_fCwkQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Aksum%20town%20tourist&f=false this]. It's growing and may become a city again, but it has been a town for centuries. Doug Weller talk 12:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Can we consider renaming the article as Aksum? The latter stays more close to Ethiopic script that does not know the letter "x". See also the official name of Aksum University. Rastakwere ( talk) 12:12, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
The Axum spelling has been used in American English for more than 200 years. You will need to considerably enlarge the map, but then you will see an early example of the Axum spelling on this 1843 map. -- Bushel C andle 02:18, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
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Among the valuable Ethiopic manuscripts found in Abyssinia in modern times is the Book of Axum, or Abyssinian Chronicles, brought back by the traveller Bruce.
Although the years laid down in the book of Axum do not precisely agree with our account, yet they are so near, that we cannot doubt that the revolt of the ten tribes, and destruction of Rehoboam's fleet, which followed, occasioned the removal of Menilek's capital to Tigre. † But, whatever was the cause, Menilek did remove his court from Azab to a place near Axum, at this day called Adega Daid, the House of David; and, at no great distance, is another, called Azabo, from his ancient metropolis, where there are old remains of buildings of stone and lime; a certain proof that Axum was then fallen, else he would have naturally gone thither immediately upon forsaking his mother's capital of Azab.
The official language on the other page is written as Greek which is completely false and makes it seem as if Ge'ez was used much after. It maybe worth trying to change that. Rania212 ( talk) 00:42, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
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This whole piece is so far from what is widely known in History. I suspect there are people from Eritrea who are trying to systematically rob somebody else's history. During the Aksumite Empire, there was nothing as Tigray Region or Eritrea. However, the records and the evidences show that the Empire was in what is today known as Ethiopia. Aksum is a town in Ethiopia, not Eritrea. Eritrea was a name given to a former province of Ethiopia By Italians Aksum was by no means an Eritrean civilization. A reader is advised to check some other more credible sources. To the writer: whatever your motive is, you are not doing a good service to the truth or to history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:700:700:6:BC4B:EC0D:9AE:5E34 ( talk) 13:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
The page "Niexemetes" is a redirect to the "Axum" article, but the Axum article doesn't mention Niexemetes. The term doesn't appear in the Axum page history either. The redirect page appears to have been created out of nothing; the term is neither explained nor referenced anywhere. This kind of defeats the purpose of the redirect. Would it useful to include a section on "Niexemetes" in the Axum article?
This article seems to always have referred to the modern site as a town, and still did even when the lead was just changed to make it a city. UNESCO calls it a town although the article also discusses the ancient city. One of the main scholars to study Ethiopia, Stuart Munro-Hay, someone whose works we use as sources in various articles, calls it a town. [1] As to other sources, both tourist guides and scholarly, eg [] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iUIJSxxVaI0C&pg=PA44&dq=Aksum+town+tourist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-_Kn7rNTgAhWBonEKHf_fCwkQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Aksum%20town%20tourist&f=false this]. It's growing and may become a city again, but it has been a town for centuries. Doug Weller talk 12:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Can we consider renaming the article as Aksum? The latter stays more close to Ethiopic script that does not know the letter "x". See also the official name of Aksum University. Rastakwere ( talk) 12:12, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
The Axum spelling has been used in American English for more than 200 years. You will need to considerably enlarge the map, but then you will see an early example of the Axum spelling on this 1843 map. -- Bushel C andle 02:18, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
References
Among the valuable Ethiopic manuscripts found in Abyssinia in modern times is the Book of Axum, or Abyssinian Chronicles, brought back by the traveller Bruce.
Although the years laid down in the book of Axum do not precisely agree with our account, yet they are so near, that we cannot doubt that the revolt of the ten tribes, and destruction of Rehoboam's fleet, which followed, occasioned the removal of Menilek's capital to Tigre. † But, whatever was the cause, Menilek did remove his court from Azab to a place near Axum, at this day called Adega Daid, the House of David; and, at no great distance, is another, called Azabo, from his ancient metropolis, where there are old remains of buildings of stone and lime; a certain proof that Axum was then fallen, else he would have naturally gone thither immediately upon forsaking his mother's capital of Azab.
The official language on the other page is written as Greek which is completely false and makes it seem as if Ge'ez was used much after. It maybe worth trying to change that. Rania212 ( talk) 00:42, 27 November 2023 (UTC)