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Feast
24 October – Eastern Orthodox Church[4][5]
28 May – Ethiopian Orthodox[6][7]
27 October – Catholic Church[note 1]
Kaleb (Ge'ez: ካሌብ, Latin: Caleb), also known as Saint Elesbaan (Ge'ez: እለ አጽብሐ, Ancient Greek: Ἅγιος Ἐλεσβαᾶς), was King of Aksum, which was situated in modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea
^ abcBudge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 1). London: Methuen & Co. p. 261.
^Stewart, John (2005). African States and Rulers. London: McFarland. p. 23. ISBN 0-7864-2562-8.
^ abcSellassie, Sergew Hable (1972). Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270. Addis Ababa. p. 159.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Blessed Elezboi, Emperor of Ethiopia. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
^Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
^Synaxarium. Ginbot 20 (May 28). Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Debre Meheret St. Michael Church. Retrieved: 2012-10-30.
^Synaxarium: The Book of the Saints of The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Transl. of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge. Printed by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Debre Meheret St. Michael Church, Garland, TX USA. p. 764.
^The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 331.
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association of the name ofKaleb with the evangelization of this interior province of Aksum. Besides several inscriptions bearing his name, Axum also contains...
Djibouti and Sudan, it extended at its height into much of South Arabia during the reign ofKalebofAxum. Emerging from the earlier dʿmt civilization, the...
Axum, also spelled Aksum (pronounced: /ˈɑːkˈsuːm/ ), is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents (as of 2015). It...
family. Later, Abraha was either one of the commanders or a member of one of the armies led by King KalebofAxum against Dhu Nuwas. In al-Tabari's history...
of the Cross") also known as Gabra Masqal was a King ofAxum who reigned in the 6th century. He was a son ofKalebofAxum and brother to Israel of Axum...
took place in c. 525, when KalebofAxum defeated the Jewish king in south Arabia. He also pointed out there was no mention of Islam in the text, despite...
ይስራኤል Yisrāʾēl, c. 590) was a king ofAxum. He is primarily known through the coins minted during his reign. He is one of several Aksumite kings with a Biblical...
comment that he was "the most famous of the Aksumite kings before Kaleb." In early life he considered himself a son of Ares, but later inscriptions show...
KalebofAxum invaded Himyar (modern-day Yemen) to aid and defend Christians under religious persecution. During these campaigns, several groups of soldiers...
king's name closely resemble those of King KalebofAxum, Stuart Munro-Hay suggests that Ousas may be another name of Tazena, who is described both in Ethiopian...
massacres of Christians by Dhū Nuwās, the Byzantine emperor Justin I sent a call to arms through the Patriarch of Alexandria Timothy IV, and Negus Kālēb decided...
emerged from a confusion with two other religious Aksumite figures: KalebofAxum, whose throne name was Ella Atsbeha, and Abraha, an Aksumite general...
and as "Victor" (corresponding to Aksumite description under KalebofAxum), and made use of Trinitarian formulae, Abraha began to only describe Jesus as...
by the Christian King KalebofAxum following his successful invasion on Himyar. Berkey, Jonathan P. (2003). The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society...
Battle of Teutoburg Forest. In 518, Negus KalebofAxum dispatched a punitive expedition against the Himyarite Kingdom in response to the persecution of Christians...
date). KalebofAxum, Aksumite king responsible for the destruction of Himyar Antalas, Berber tribal leader (approximate date) Aregund, queen of the Franks...
author of the Monumentum Adulitanum. The latter is an inscription at Adulis that Cosmas Indicopleustes made a copy of for king KalebofAxum. Discussing...
defeated by an Ethiopian army. The emperor of Byzantium, Justin I, requested his ally, the Abyssinian ruler KalebofAxum, to invade Najran, kill Dhu-Nuwas, and...
Christian KalebofAxum, who had dispatched military contingents to fight against the Judaizing Dhu Nuwas of the Arabian peninsula kingdom of Himyar banished...
and encouraged KalebofAxum to occupy Yemen and eliminate the Jewish king. Dhu al-Nawas was later deposed and killed, prompting Kaleb to appoint a native...
The kings ofAxum ruled an important trading state in the area which is now Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, from 400 B.C–960 AD. Axum Lists of office-holders...
Poor Frumentius (Roman Catholic Church) Gaudiosus of Naples KalebofAxum Namatius (Namace) Oran of Iona October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Černová...
Christian KalebofAxum, who had dispatched military contingents to fight against the Judaizing Dhu Nuwas of the Arabian peninsula kingdom of Himyar banished...
destroying the church there. The Christian King KalebofAxum learned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, according to Procopius...
Pentalewon Monastery located on the top of Mai Qoho Hill northwest ofAxum in Tigray, Ethiopia. He is one of the members of the group known as the Nine Saints...
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