The Tigray Region, officially the Tigray National Regional State, is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigrai Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan (Tegaru), Irob people and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle.
Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fourth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely populated of the 11 regional states. Tigray is often regarded as the cradle of #Ethiopian civilization. Its landscape has many historic monuments. Three major monotheistic religions, #Judaism, #Christianity and #Islam arrived in Ethiopia through the Red Sea and then Tigray.
They were the Aksum Kingdom before incorporation into Ethiopia. The Kingdom of Aksum was a trading empire rooted in northern Ethiopia. It existed from approximately 100–940 AD, growing from the proto-Aksumite Iron Age period 4th century BC to achieve prominence by the 1st century AD.
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