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ZULA , a small See also:

town near the See also:head of Annesley See also:Bay on the See also:African See also:coast of the Red See also:Sea. It derives its See also:chief See also:interest from ruins in its vicinity which are generally supposed to See also:mark the site of the See also:ancient See also:emporium of Adulis ("ASovAls, 'AbovXei), the See also:port of Axum (q.v.) and chief outlet in the See also:early centuries of the See also:Christian era for the See also:ivory, hides, slaves and other exports of the interior. See also:Cosmas Indicopleustes saw here an inscription of See also:Ptolemy Euergetes (247—222 B.c.); and hence, as the earliest mention of Adulis is found in the geographers of the first See also:century A.D., it is conjectured that the town must have previously existed under another name and may have been the See also:Berenice Panchrysus of the See also:Ptolemies. Described by a See also:Greek See also:merchant of the See also:time of See also:Vespasian as " a well-arranged See also:market,” the See also:place has been for centuries buried under See also:sand. The ruins visible include a See also:temple, obelisks and numerous fragments of columns. In 1857 an agreement was entered into by Dejaj Negusye, a chief of See also:Tigre, in revolt against the See also:Negus See also:Theodore of See also:Abyssinia, to cede Zula to the See also:French. Negusye was defeated by Theodore, and the See also:commander of a French cruiser sent to Annesley Bay in 1859 found the See also:country in a See also:state of anarchy. No farther steps were taken by See also:France to assert its See also:sovereignty, and Zula with the neighbouring coast passed, nominally, to See also:Egypt in 1866. Zula was the place where the See also:British expedition of 1867—68 against Theodore disembarked, Annesley Bay affording safe and ample anchorage for the largest ocean-going vessels. The road made by the British from Zula to Senafe on the Abyssinian See also:plateau is still in use. The authority of Egypt having lapsed, an See also:Italian See also:protectorate over the See also:district of Zula. was proclaimed in 1888, and In 1890 it was incorporated in the See also:colony of See also:Eritrea (q.v.). See Eduard Ruppell, Reise in Abyssinien, i.

266 (1838); G. See also:

Rohlfs in Zeitschr. d. Gesell. f. Erdkunde in See also:Berlin, iii. (1868), and, for further references, the See also:editions of the Periplus by C. See also:Muller (Geog. Gr. See also:Min., i. 259) and See also:Fabricius (1883). Consult also See also:ETHIOPIA: The Axumite See also:Kingdom.

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