A person from Axum (also called Aksum), an ancient and powerful kingdom in the Horn of Africa, located in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea.
From Axum, the name of the ancient kingdom, plus '-ite' (a common suffix for people from a place), derived from Ge'ez origins.
The Axumite Empire was one of the four great superpowers of the ancient world alongside Rome, Persia, and China, yet most people have never heard of it—which is a huge gap in how we teach world history.
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