adulis

Updated: June 1, 2025

Justinian embraced a more humble expedient, and solicited the aid of his Christian allies, the Æthiopians of Abyssinia, who had recently acquired the arts of navigation, the spirit of trade, and the seaport of Adulis, still decorated with the trophies of a Grecian conqueror.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4