Kingdom of Axum
The Kingdom of Aksum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in the Horn of Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in what is now Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia, and spanning present-day Djibouti, Sudan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Emerging from the earlier Dʿmt civilization, the kingdom was founded in the 1st century. The city of Axum served as the kingdom's capital.
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Events on its territory
- c. 50 The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum
- c. 330 Aksum adopts Christianity