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Aksum: History, Former Names & Timeline

City of the northern Ethiopian highlands, capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, known for its giant stelae and one of the first states to adopt Christianity.

Map showing Aksum in AD 500Aksum
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Former names of Aksum

FromNameNote
100 BCAksum

Timeline of Aksum

YearEvent
AD 330King Ezana converts to Christianity
AD 525Aksum sends an army to Yemen

Who ruled Aksum

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–301 BCWest African cereal farmers
300 BC–201 BCDamot
200 BC–2 BCWest African cereal farmers
1 BC–999Axum
1000–1199Unclaimed / no data
1200–1299Ifat
1300–1913Ethiopia
1914–1919Abyssinia
1920–1937Ethiopia
1938–1944Ethiopia (Italy)
1945–todayEthiopia

Battles and sites near Aksum

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