Tributary network · approximate100 CE – 940 CE · 840 years
Kingdom of Aksum
Overview
The Kingdom of Aksum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in North East 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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Borders & accuracy
A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps
- SNAPSHOT400 CE
- MATCHEDAxum
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Wars of this empire12
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Aksumite conquest of Meroë330–360 CEWorld-changing
- Aksumite invasion of Himyar (Kaleb)518–525 CEWorld-changing
- Aksumite invasion of Himyar (GDR)200–230 CESignificant
- Kush-Axumite Wars200–350 CESignificant
- Aksum–Noba war of Ezana350–360 CESignificant
- Arab–Aksumite raids640–702 CESignificant
- Axumite Invasions of Arabia518–570 CERegional · 50K dead
- Axumite Kingdom Expansion Wars100–700 CERegional
- Aksumite expedition of Sembrouthes270–300 CERegional
- Aksum–Beja conflicts300–700 CERegional
- Aksum–Agaw wars400–700 CERegional
- Battle of Zabid525 CERegional
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 100 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Kingdom of Aksum (100 CE – 940 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/kingdom-of-axum · Sources & methodology