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) Name of Georgia (country) Georgia is the Western exonym for the nation in the Caucasus natively known as Sakartvelo (; , ). The Russian exonym is Gruziya (). The native name is derived from the core central Georgian region of Kartli i.e. Iberia of the Classical and Byzantine sources around which the early medieval cultural and political unity of the Georgians was formed. Both the Western and the Russian exonyms are likely derived from the Persian designation of the Georgians, "gurğān", evolving from Middle Persian "wurğān" and Old Persian "varkân" (𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴) meaning "land of the wolves". This is also reflected