Polity · 50 BCE – 946 CE
Kingdom of Axum
- Peak recorded area
- 392,490 km²
- 534 CE
- Rulers on record
- 11
- from 260 CE
- Data series
- 2
- 589 CE–589 CE
Overview
The Kingdom of Aksum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, and spanning present-day Djibouti, Sudan, and Yemen. Emerging from the earlier Dʿmt civilization, the kingdom was founded in the 1st century.
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Territory
8 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 946 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Known Ancient Places | 3places589 CE · Pleiades Gazetteer |
| Known Ancient Settlements | 2settlements589 CE · Pleiades Gazetteer |
Rulers
11 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- DTWNSEthiopia, AKSUM260 CE – 270 CE
- EndubisEthiopia, AKSUM270 CE – 300 CE
- AphilasEthiopia, AKSUM300 CE – 310 CE
- OusanasEthiopia, AKSUM320 CE – 333 CE
- Ezana of AxumEthiopia, AKSUM325 CE – 356 CE
- Wazeba of AxumEthiopia, AKSUM333 CE – 356 CE
- Alla AmidasEthiopia, AKSUM432 CE – 439 CE
- EbanaEthiopia, AKSUM439 CE – 450 CE
- NezoolEthiopia, AKSUM450 CE – 486 CE
- Eon of AxumEthiopia, AKSUM471 CE – 472 CE
- OusasEthiopia, AKSUM486 CE – 493 CE
Language & currency
- Currency
- Aksumite currency
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
Pleiades Gazetteer2024 snapshot
Bagnall, R. et al. (eds.). Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places.
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Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Kingdom of Axum is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.