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first year of
Merkurios'
reign can be
dated by an
inscription on the
foundation stone in Faras,
which was
dated to AD 707, and also to
Merkurios' eleventh...
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Bayuda Desert in
northern Sudan.
Probably founded by the
Makurian king
Merkurios in the late 7th century, it
functioned until the 13th century. Almost...
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Nubian kingdom of Makuria.
While some
authorities place his
reign between Merkurios and
Zacharias I,
according to
Severus of El Ashmunein,
Kyriakos succeeded...
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mutual raids. The 8th
century was a
period of consolidation.
Under king
Merkurios, who
lived in the late 7th and
early 8th
century and whom the
Coptic biograph...
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Severus of El Ashmunein,
Zacharias declined the
kingship when his
father Merkurios died, and
appointed his
kinsman Simon to
server instead, so he
could devote...
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Ethiopia (1971–1976)
Tekle Haimanot,
Patriarch of
Ethiopia (1976–1988)
Merkurios,
Patriarch of
Ethiopia (1988–1991) Yacob,
Patriarch of
Ethiopia (1991–1992)...
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Nubiologist Włodzimierz
Godlewski states that it was
under the
Makurian king
Merkurios (early 8th century) that the two
kingdoms began to
approach each other...
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source to
describe the
dynastic struggles that
followed the
death c.730 of
Merkurios, whom he
refers to as a "new Constantine". He is the
earliest source to...
- El Ashmunein, upon the
death of king Simon,
Zacharias the son of king
Merkurios then
appointed Abraham, "a
valiant youth attached to the palace" to succeed...
- to
Severus of El Ashmunein,
Zacharias was the son of his predecessor,
Merkurios.1
Severus gives the
impression that his
reign was brief, for he states...
