{
 "id": "place/abyssinia",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "abyssinia",
 "label": {
  "en": "Abyssinia (Aksum)",
  "ar": "الحبشة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The Aksumite kingdom across the Red Sea: twice occupier of Yemen (340 and 525), patron of Abraha’s elephant campaign, and later refuge of the first Muslim emigrants.",
  "ar": "مملكة أكسوم خلف البحر الأحمر: محتلة اليمن مرتين (340م و525م)، وصاحبة حملة أبرهة بالفيل، ثم مأوى مهاجرة المسلمين الأولى."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/tafhim-al-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 23–34 (batch 25b)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الحبشة (أكسوم): المملكة خلف البحر الأحمر؛ محتلة اليمن مرتين، وصاحبة حملة الفيل، ومأوى مهاجرة المسلمين لاحقاً."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المكان",
     "markdown": "احتلت الأحباش اليمن أول مرة سنة 340م مستغلين التنافس بين همدان وحمير، واستمر احتلالهم إلى سنة 378م {cite:tafhim-al-quran}.\n\nثم احتلوها ثانية سنة 525م بسبعين ألف جندي بقيادة أرباط وأسطول الروم، فكان من ولاتهم أبرهة صاحب حملة الفيل على مكة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "الحبشة مملكة كبيرة في أفريقيا قبالة اليمن؛ حكمت اليمن زماناً، ومنها جاءت حملة الفيل الشهيرة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/abyssinia",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Abyssinia (Axum): the kingdom beyond the Red Sea; Yemen's occupier twice, author of the Elephant campaign, and later shelter of the Muslim emigrants."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The place",
     "markdown": "The Abyssinians first occupied Yemen in 340 CE, exploiting the rivalry between Hamdan and Himyar, and their occupation lasted until 378 CE {cite:tafhim-al-quran}.\n\nThen they occupied it again in 525 CE with seventy thousand soldiers under Aryat and a Roman fleet; among their governors was Abraha, author of the Elephant campaign against Mecca {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Abyssinia is a great African kingdom facing Yemen; it ruled Yemen for a time, and from it came the famous Elephant campaign."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/abyssinia",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}