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) the Syriac "gurz-ān"/"gurz-iyān" and Arabic "ĵurĵan"/"ĵurzan", derived from the New Persian "gurğ"/"gurğān", itself stemming from the Middle Persian "waručān" of unclear origin, but resembling the eastern trans-Caspian toponym Gorgan, which comes from the Old Persian "varkâna-", "land of the wolves". This might have been of the same etymology as the Armenian "Virk"' (Վիրք) and a source of the Greco-Roman rendition "Iberi" (), the ethnonym already known to them as a designation of the Iberian peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. One theory on the etymology of the name Iberia, proposed by Giorgi Melikishvili, was that it was derived from the contemporary