Empire · approximate2500 BCE – 350 CE · 2850 years

Kingdom of Kush

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.

Wikipedia: Kingdom of Kush·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT300 BCE
POLITY TYPEstate

approximate — Napatan/Meroitic-era canonical extent; Nile-corridor + Butana steppe

Wars of this empire11

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Kushite conquest of Egypt744–712 BCE
World-changing
Assyrian conquest of Egypt673–663 BCE
World-changing
Aksumite conquest of Meroë330–360 CE
World-changing
Roman-Kushite War27–22 BCE
Major conflict
Axumite-Nubian Wars330–450 CE
Major conflict
Psamtik II's Nubian campaign593 BCE
Significant
Kush-Axumite Wars200–350 CE
Significant
Amenhotep III's Nubian Consolidation1390–1352 BCE
Regional
Battle of Napata593 BCE
Regional
Battle of Napata23 BCE
Regional
Axumite Kingdom Expansion Wars100–700 CE
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 2500 BCE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kingdom of Kush (2500 BCE – 350 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-kush-kingdom · Sources & methodology