Field and river

20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES20)
Mekelle University, Ethiopia

"Regional and Global Ethiopia - Interconnections and Identities"
1-5 October, 2018

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THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE AKSUMITE POLITY AS SEEN IN MEDITERRANEAN SOURCES. [Abstract ID: 0518-07]

Eivind Heldaas SELAND, University of Bergen, Norway

In the early centuries of our era, the Aksumite kingdom flourished in parts of present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. The kingdom attracted the interest of traders, diplomats, scholars and missionaries from the Roman and Byzantine empires. In this paper I demonstrate how outside observeres employed familiar terminology in order to make sense of a foreign geopolitcal space.