Note 099
Alvarez (in Ramusio, tom. i. fol. 219, vers.
221, vers.) saw the flourishing state of Axume in the year
1520 - luogomolto buono e grande. It was ruined in the same
century by the Turkish invasion. No more than 100 houses
remain; but the memory of its past greatness is preserved by
the regal coronation, (Ludolph. Hist. et Comment. l. ii. c.
11.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 42