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Ethiopia, the oldest independent nation in Africa, has a
heritage dating back to the first century AD. Traders from
Greece, Rome, Persia and Egypt knew of the riches of what is
now Ethiopia, and by the first century AD, Axum was the
capital of a great empire.
This
realm became one of the first Christian lands of Africa.
Late in the 10th Century, Axum declined and a new Zagwe
dynasty, centered in what is now Lalibela, ruled the land. |
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