Agazi People
Agazi may refer to: * Agʿazi, a region of the Aksumite Empire in Eastern Tigray and Eritrea * Agazi, the name of a military operation in Mekelle Mekelle ( ti, መቐለ, am, መቀሌ, mäqälle, mek’elē) or Mekele is a List of zones of Ethiopia, special zone and capital city, capital of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Mekelle was formerly the capital of Enderta province, Enderta Awrajj ...

Agʿazi
Agʿazi is the name of a region of the Aksumite Empire in what consists today of Eastern Tigray, Amhara and Southern Eritrea. History The earliest attestation of this name can be found in the determined ''nisba''-form yg'ḏyn in three pre-Aksumite Royal inscriptions: '' b/mlkn/sr'n/yg'ḏyn/mkrb/d'mt/web''' 'RBH, the victorious king, he of (the tribe?) YG'Ḏ, ''mukarrib'' of D'MT and SB' (RIE 8:1-2); ''lmn/mlkn/sr'n/yg/ḏyn/mkrb/d'mt/wsb'/bn/rbb'' 'LMN, the victorious king he of (the tribe?) YG'Ḏ, ''mukarrib'' of D'MT and SB', son of RBH' (RIE 5 A:1-2, the same formula in RIE 10:1-5). YG'Ḏ seems to be the name of the leading tribe or royal family settled in the region of Akele Guzai. In Aksumite inscriptions this name never appears. In the Greek Monumentum Adulitanum (RIE 277), the author (an Aksumite king of the 2nd-3rd century AD) states: Γάζη έθνος έπολέμηα ("I fought the Gaze-people"). This people's name has been connected with the term Ge'ez. The Sin ...
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