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The Kingdom of Aksum adopts Christianity

330 CE · Ethiopia, Africa · Religion

The Kingdom of Aksum adopts Christianity
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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.

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