Ella-Amida
King of Aksoum, father of Ezana. Its reign is completed towards 320 - 325. The name of Ousanas appears on its currencies.
It cuts down definitively what remains kingdom of Méroé and sets up a stele commemorating its victory in the ruins of the capital. It is enough powerful to be allowed, in reprisals operations ordered by Constantin against the Blemmyes, its allies of North, to capture close to Adoulis Roman ships
The Byzantine traveller Cosmas Indicopleustès, in visit with Aksoum towards 525, recopied an inscription of king Ella-Amida commemorating his victories, in particular over Méroé. It made trace a road which goes from its States to the Egypt, seized the area of the lake Tana and the country of Sassou, in the south of the the Nile Bleu, rich in gold. To the east, it subjected the course of the Aromatics (Cape Gardafui), the countries of the incense and the myrrh, and ordered with the Sobates to supervise the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. It sent a fleet and an army to the Yemen and subjected the Arab to the tribute.
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