Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 401 BCE – 960 CE

Kingdom of Aksum

A state of 401 BCE – 960 CE — 1,361 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 20 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 19. Its line of rulers holds 30 people, 22 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
1,361 years
401 BCE – 960
Rulers
30
the Ethiopia, AKSUM
Most ground
394,200 km²
in 534
Within it
20
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: Kingdom of Aksum in 534, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Aksum in 534, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 394,200 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Kingdom of Aksum in 50 BCE, first mapped

50 BCE · first mapped · 97,400 km²

Kingdom of Aksum in 534, at its largest

534 · at its largest · 394,200 km²

Kingdom of Aksum in 602, last mapped

602 · last mapped · 97,400 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Aksum: 401 BCE – 960

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of Ethiopia, AKSUM.

Zoskales · 100 – 200 · the term ends after the recorded deathGDRT · 200 – 230 · left office alive`DBH · 230 – 240 · no death date to read the end againstSembrouthes · 240 – 260 · left office aliveDTWNS · 260 – 270 · no death date to read the end againstEndubis · 270 – 300 · no death date to read the end againstAphilas · 300 – 310 · no death date to read the end againstOusanas · 320 – 333 · left office aliveEzana of Axum · 325 – 356 · no death date to read the end againstWazeba of Axum · 333 – 356 · left office aliveAlla Amidas · 432 – 439 · left office aliveEbana · 439 – 450 · left office aliveNezool · 450 – 486 · left office aliveOusas · 486 – 493 · no death date to read the end againstKaleb of Axum · 514 – 534 · left office aliveWazena of Axum · 550 – 570 · left office aliveWʽZB · 570 – 580 · left office aliveIoel · 580 – 585 · left office aliveHataz · 585 – 590 · no death date to read the end againstIsrael of Axum · 590 – 600 · no death date to read the end againstGersem of Axum · 600 – 614 · the term ends after the recorded deathNajashi · 614 – 630 · died in office, manner not recorded1500
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Zoskales100 – 200100 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
GDRT200 – 23030 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
`DBH230 – 24010 yearsending not on record
Sembrouthes240 – 26020 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
DTWNS260 – 27010 yearsending not on record
Endubis270 – 30030 yearsending not on record
Aphilas300 – 31010 yearsending not on record
Ousanas320 – 33313 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ezana of Axum325 – 35631 yearsending not on recordchild
Wazeba of Axum333 – 35623 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Alla Amidas432 – 4397 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ebana439 – 45011 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Nezool450 – 48636 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonesibling
Ousas486 – 4937 yearsending not on recordsibling
Kaleb of Axum514 – 53420 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Wazena of Axum550 – 57020 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
WʽZB570 – 58010 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ioel580 – 5855 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Hataz585 – 5905 yearsending not on record
Israel of Axum590 – 60010 yearsending not on record
Gersem of Axum600 – 61414 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Najashi614 – 63016 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

30 rulers, 22 with terms dated as terms, covering 100 – 630. Median reign 13.5 years. 2 of 21 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1200400600800

97,400 km² in 1 BCE, 97,400 km² in 899; at its largest 394,200 km² in 549. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • KingEndybisEthiopia227-235CE
    coin, undatedKingEndybisEthiopia227-235CE · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PHGCOM

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

500 BCE – 401 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other500 BCE400 BCE – 301 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 BCE – 201 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other300 BCE200 BCE – 101 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 BCE – 1 BCE: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100 BCE0 – 99: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other100 – 199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other100200 – 299: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other300 – 399: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other300400 – 499: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other500 – 599: 8 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 7 other500600 – 699: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other700 – 799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other700800 – 899: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other900 – 999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other900

0 – 991 row

200 – 2992 rows

300 – 3993 rows

400 – 4993 rows

500 – 5998 rows · 1 wars and battles

600 – 6992 rows

800 – 8991 row

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood1,361 years

    stood longer than 99% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held394,200 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 70% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median14 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 46% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record30

    has more rulers on record than 95% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q139377 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.