Dhu Nuwas, after seizing the throne of …
Years: 523 - 523
Dhu Nuwas, after seizing the throne of the Ḥimyarites in about
518 or 523 according to the contemporary sources, attacked the Aksumite (mainly Christian Ethiopians and Yemeni Arab Christians) garrison at Zafar, capturing them and burning their churches.
He now moves against ...
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Jews
- Himyarite Kingdom
- Aksum (or Axum), Kingdom of
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Lakhmid kingdom of al-Hira
- Christians, Monophysite
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Ghassan, Kingdom of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
