Migration to Abyssinia 622 and made the hijra to Medina with Muhammad, while a second wave in came to Medina in 628, about 6 years later. The first list of emigrants reported by Ibn Ishaq included the following eleven men and four women: Migration to Abyssinia The Migration to Abyssinia (, "al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša"), also known as the First Hegira ( "hijrah"), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where Prophet Muhammad's first followers (the "Sahabah") fled from the persecution of the ruling Quraysh tribe of Mecca. They sought refuge in the Christian Kingdom of Aksum, present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia (formerly
Name of Georgia (country) also adopted in Abkhaz and Georgia is referred as Қырҭтәыла "Kyrţtwyla" (i.e. Sakartvelo). The European "Georgia" probably stems from the Persian designation of the Georgians – "gurğ" (), "ğurğ" – which reached the Western European crusaders and pilgrims in the Holy Land who rendered the name as "Georgia" (also "Jorgania", "Giorginia", etc.) and, erroneously, explained its origin by the popularity of St. George (Tetri Giorgi) among the Georgians. This explanation is offered, among others, by Jacques de Vitry and Franz Ferdinand von Troilo. Another theory, popularized by the likes of Jean Chardin, semantically linked "Georgia" to Greek ("tiller of the