Back ንጉሥ ካሌብ ጻድቅ Amharic الملك كالب Arabic الملك كالب ARZ Калеб Bulgarian Caleb d'Axum Catalan Kaleb af Aksum Danish Ella Asbeha German Elesbaan Spanish Ella Asbeha French כלב, קיסר אקסום HE
| Kaleb of Axum ካሌብ Ἐλεσβαᾶς τῆς Ἀξωμιτῆς | |
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 Coin of the Axumite king Kaleb | |
| King of Axum | |
| Reign | 514–534 |
| Predecessor | Ousas |
| Successor | Gebre Meskel |
| Born | Axum, Kingdom of Axum |
| Issue | Israel[1][2] Gebre Meskel[1][2] Possibly Gebre Krestos (Gebru)[2] |
King Kaleb: Saint Elesbaan | |
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| King of Axum | |
| Venerated in | Oriental Orthodox Churches Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
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Kaleb (Ge'ez: ካሌብ, Latin: Caleb), also known as Elesbaan (Ge'ez: እለ አጽብሐ, Koinē Greek: Ἐλεσβαᾶς), was King of Aksum, which was situated in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea.
- ^ a b Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 1). London: Methuen & Co. p. 261.
- ^ a b c Sellassie, Sergew Hable (1972). Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270. Addis Ababa. p. 159.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Blessed Elezboi, Emperor of Ethiopia. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- ^ Blessed Elesbaan the King of Ethiopia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- ^ Synaxarium. Ginbot 20 (May 28). Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Debre Meheret St. Michael Church. Retrieved: 2012-10-30.
- ^ Synaxarium: The Book of the Saints of The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Transl. of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge. Printed by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Debre Meheret St. Michael Church, Garland, TX USA. p. 764.
- ^ The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 331.
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