...Najran, a Monophysite Christian and Aksumite stronghold. …
Years: 523 - 523
...Najran, a Monophysite Christian and Aksumite stronghold.
After accepting the city's capitulation, he massacres those inhabitants who will not renounce Christianity.
Estimates of the death toll from this event range up to twenty thousand in some sources.
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
