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Quote: قبل فترة اطلعت علي تقرير لبعثة آثار تتعلق بمدي صحة لقاء ملكة سبأ بالنبي سليمان. اتي التقرير أنه قبل هذه البعثة التي قامت بعملها في القدس كان السائد بين علماء الاثار و التاريخ استبعاد ذهاب ملك سبأ للقاء الملك سليمان لبعد المسافة لكن حفريات البعثة اكدت حقيقة زيارة الملكة للقدس!!

and Saba, Arabic: also Saba, Amharic : ሳባ is a southern kingdom mentioned in the Jewish scriptures (Old Testament) and the Qur'an.
The actual location of the historical kingdom is disputed between Ethiopia and Yemen. However, it is possible that it could have been situated in Ethiopia as well as Yemen
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In the Old Testament genealogy of the nations (Genesis 10:7), Sheba, along with Dedan, is listed as one of the descendants of Noah's son Ham (i.e. son of Raamah son of Cush son of Ham). In Genesis 25:3, Sheba and Dedan are listed as sons of Jokshan. Another Sheba is listed in the Genesis 10 genealogy as a descendant of Noah's son Shem, i.e. a Semite. (There the genealogy lists Sheba as son of Joktan son of Eber son of Shelah son of Arphaxad son of Shem.)

The nation makes its first appearance in world literature in the form of the Queen of Sheba (named Makeda in Ethiopian tradition and Bilqis in Islamic tradition), who travels to Jerusalem to behold the fame of King Solomon (ca. 980 BC) (1 Kings 10). The location of Sheba has thus become closely linked with national prestige, as various royal houses have claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba and Solomon.

Long the most vigorous claimant has been Ethiopia and Eritrea, where Sheba was traditionally linked with the ancient Axumite Kingdom. As Ethiopia has remained a Christian state, the connection to Sheba has been an important one, especially to the former ruling family, the Solomonic dynasty. Qur'anic Queen of Sheba, Bilqis, was a ruler who visited Prophet Solomon PBUH after receiving a letter from him inviting her to submit to God. The letter read: 'In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, and Most Merciful; be you not exalted against me, but come to me as Muslims (true believers who submit with full submission).'" (27:30-31 Quran). After visiting with King Solomon the Queen of Sheba said: "My Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, and I submit (in Islam), together with Sulayman, to Allah, the Lord of the Alamin (mankind, jinns, and all that exists)." (27:20-44 Quran).

There has been surmounting evidence of a region in northern Tigray and Eritrea which called itself Saba. While yet most scholars would call it Ethiopian Saba, which supports the fact that Sabean culture existed both in Ethiopia and Yemen, without one colonizing the other. Recent archaeological evidence has not given strong support to the Ethiopian claim, however[citation needed], and today most scholars believe that, at most, the kingdom of Sheba controlled some coastal regions of Ethiopia and Eritrea while being centered on the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula, modern Yemen.

Linguistic evidence also points to a close historical relationship between the two sides of the Red Sea, as South Semitic languages are found only in two places: southern Arabia (modern Yemen and Oman), and the Horn of Africa (Eritrea and Ethiopia). The modern Ge'ez alphabet is also descended from the old South Arabian alphabet.

Modern scholars tend to think a link to the Sabaeans of southern Arabia, who inhabited the same region, is the most probable. However, Ethiopisant Donald Levine argued in favor of one Ethiopian tradition that "Sheba is Shewa!"

Ruins in many other countries including Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, and Iran have been credited as being Sheba, but with only minimal evidence, and there has even been a suggestion of a link between the name Sheba and that of Zanzibar.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheba