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title="D'mt – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="D'mt" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27mt" title="D'mt – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="D'mt" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%E2%80%99amot" title="Da’amot – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Da’amot" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damot" title="Damot – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Damot" 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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">c. 980–400 BCE kingdom in Eritrea and fringes of northern Ethiopia</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the medieval kingdom located in western Ethiopia, see <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Damot" title="Kingdom of Damot">Kingdom of Damot</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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this map, not to be confused with the later and more southwestern Kingdom of Damot."><img alt="Dʿmt is given as "Damot" on this map, not to be confused with the later and more southwestern Kingdom of Damot." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/D%27mt_map.png/250px-D%27mt_map.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/D%27mt_map.png/375px-D%27mt_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/D%27mt_map.png/500px-D%27mt_map.png 2x" data-file-width="17877" data-file-height="20000" /></a></span><div class="ib-country-map-caption">Dʿmt is given as "Damot" on this map, not to be confused with the later and more southwestern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Damot" title="Kingdom of Damot">Kingdom of Damot</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yeha" title="Yeha">Yeha</a><sup id="cite_ref-Thurstan612_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thurstan612-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Government</th><td class="infobox-data">Monarchy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Historical era</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Established </div></th><td class="infobox-data">980 BC</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Disestablished </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 650 BC</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width:95%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border:0; padding-bottom:0"><div id="before-after"></div> <b>Preceded by</b></td> <td style="text-align:center;border:0; padding-bottom:0;"><b>Succeeded by</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; border:0;"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sheba" title="Sheba">Sheba</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;border:0;"> <table style="width:92%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Kingdom of Aksum</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dʿmt</b> (Unvocalized <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez">Ge'ez</a>: ደዐመተ, <i>DʿMT</i> theoretically vocalized as ዳዓማት, *<i>Daʿamat</i><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or ዳዕማት, *<i>Daʿəmat</i><sup 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.mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-list-title,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-title-with-pretitle{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-title-with-pretitle a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks vcard"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><div class="sidebar-pretitle" style="margin: -0.2em 0; font-size:69%; font-weight:normal;">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:History_of_Eritrea" title="Category:History of Eritrea">a series</a> on the</div></th> </tr><tr> <th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style=""><a href="/wiki/History_of_Eritrea" title="History of Eritrea">History of <span class="fn org label">Eritrea</span></a></th> </tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0.4em; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Insigne_Eritreae.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arms of the flag of Eritrea"><img alt="Arms of the flag of Eritrea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Insigne_Eritreae.svg/70px-Insigne_Eritreae.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Insigne_Eritreae.svg/105px-Insigne_Eritreae.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Insigne_Eritreae.svg/140px-Insigne_Eritreae.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="257" data-file-height="253" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="#e3e3ff;color: var(--color-base)">Pre-colonial</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/History_of_Eritrea#Prehistory" title="History of Eritrea">Prehistory</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Land_of_Punt" title="Land of Punt">Land of Punt</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 2500–980 BC)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kingdom of Dəmot</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 980–400 BC)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Aksumite Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 150 BC–AD 960)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Dahlak" title="Sultanate of Dahlak">Sultanate of Dahlak</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(960–1557)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Zagwe_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Zagwe Dynasty">Zagwe Dynasty</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1137–1270)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Empire" title="Ethiopian Empire">Ethiopian Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span 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style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Habesh_Eyalet" title="Habesh Eyalet">Eyalet-i Habeş</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1554–1872)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Italian_Eritrea" title="Italian Eritrea">Italian Eritrea</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1882–1936)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Eritrea_Governorate" title="Eritrea Governorate">Eritrea Governorate</a> of <a href="/wiki/Italian_East_Africa" title="Italian East Africa">Italian East Africa</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1936–1941)</span></td></tr><tr 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plainlist"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Ethiopia_and_Eritrea" title="Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea">Autonomy within Ethiopia</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1952–1962)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Eritrean_War_of_Independence" title="Eritrean War of Independence">Eritrean War of Independence</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961–1991)</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> Annexation as the <a href="/wiki/Eritrea_Province" title="Eritrea Province">Eritrea Province</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span 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BC</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #eee;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ethiopia_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Ethiopia in the Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Aksum</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 100 – 940 AD</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Zagwe_dynasty" title="Zagwe dynasty">Zagwe dynasty</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 900–1270</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Solomonic_dynasty" title="Solomonic dynasty">Early Solomonic period</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1270–1529</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Amda_Seyon_I%27s_Expansions" class="mw-redirect" title="Amda Seyon I's Expansions">Amda Seyon's Expansions</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1314–1344</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #eee;;color: var(--color-base)">Early modern history</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian%E2%80%93Adal_War" title="Ethiopian–Adal War">Ethiopian–Adal War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1527–1543</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Oromo_migrations" class="mw-redirect" title="Oromo migrations">Oromo migrations</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">1543 – 17th cent. </span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_conquest_of_Habesh" title="Ottoman conquest of Habesh">Habesh Eyalet</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">1557 – 17th cent. </span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Gondarine_period" title="Gondarine period">Gondarine period</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1632–1769</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Zemene_Mesafint" title="Zemene Mesafint">Zemene Mesafint</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1769–1855</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian%E2%80%93Ottoman_border_conflict" title="Ethiopian–Ottoman border conflict">Ottoman border conflict</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1832–1848</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #eee;;color: var(--color-base)">Modern history</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/History_of_Ethiopia#1855–1936" title="History of Ethiopia">Unification</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1855–1913</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Menelik%27s_Invasions" class="mw-redirect" title="Menelik's Invasions">Menelik's Invasions</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1878–1904</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/First_Italo%E2%80%93Ethiopian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First Italo–Ethiopian War">First Italo–Ethiopian War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1895–1896</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Modernization_under_Haile_Selassie" title="Modernization under Haile Selassie">Modernization</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1913–1974</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia_in_World_War_I" title="Ethiopia in World War I">World War I</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1914–1918</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Second_Italo%E2%80%93Ethiopian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Italo–Ethiopian War">Second Italo–Ethiopian War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1935–1936</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Italian_East_Africa" title="Italian East Africa">Italian East Africa</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1936–1941</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/East_African_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="East African campaign (World War II)">World War II</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1941</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Italian_guerrilla_war_in_Ethiopia" title="Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia">Italian guerrilla war</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1941–1943</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Ethiopia_and_Eritrea" title="Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea">Federation with Eritrea</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1952–1962</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Eritrean_War_of_Independence" title="Eritrean War of Independence">Eritrean Independence War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1961–1991</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Civil_War" title="Ethiopian Civil War">Ethiopian Civil War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1974–1991</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ogaden_War" title="Ogaden War">Ogaden War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1977–1978</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #eee;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Federal_Democratic_Republic_of_Ethiopia" title="History of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia">Recent history</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Eritrean%E2%80%93Ethiopian_War" title="Eritrean–Ethiopian War">Eritrean–Ethiopian War</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1998–2000</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Eritrean%E2%80%93Ethiopian_border_conflict" title="Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict">Eritrean border conflict</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1998–2018</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/2005_Ethiopian_general_election_violence" title="2005 Ethiopian general election violence">Police massacre</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2005</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/War_in_Somalia_(2006%E2%80%9309)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Somalia (2006–09)">War in Somalia</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2006–2009</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/2011_East_Africa_drought" title="2011 East Africa drought">East Africa drought</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2011–2012</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/2014%E2%80%932016_Oromo_protests" title="2014–2016 Oromo protests">Oromo protests</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2014–2016</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_civil_conflict_(2018%E2%80%93present)" title="Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)">Ethiopian civil conflict</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2018–present</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;"> <a href="/wiki/Tigray_war" title="Tigray war">Tigray war</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2020–2022</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td 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birr">Currency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aksumite_currency" title="Aksumite currency">Aksumite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Famines_in_Ethiopia" title="Famines in Ethiopia">Famines</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:History_of_Ethiopia" title="Template:History of Ethiopia"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:History_of_Ethiopia" title="Template talk:History of Ethiopia"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:History_of_Ethiopia" title="Special:EditPage/Template:History of Ethiopia"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=D%CA%BFmt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Given the presence of a large temple complex, the capital of Dʿmt may have been present-day <a href="/wiki/Yeha" title="Yeha">Yeha</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Tigray_Region" title="Tigray Region">Tigray Region</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Thurstan612_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thurstan612-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Yeha, the temple to the god <a href="/wiki/Almaqah" title="Almaqah">Ilmuqah</a> is still standing.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The kingdom developed irrigation schemes, used plows, grew <a href="/wiki/Millet" title="Millet">millet</a>, and made <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">iron tools and weapons</a>. </p><p>Some modern historians including <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Munro-Hay" title="Stuart Munro-Hay">Stuart Munro-Hay</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rodolfo_Fattovich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rodolfo Fattovich (page does not exist)">Rodolfo Fattovich</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ayele_Bekerie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ayele Bekerie (page does not exist)">Ayele Bekerie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cain_Felder" class="mw-redirect" title="Cain Felder">Cain Felder</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ephraim_Isaac" title="Ephraim Isaac">Ephraim Isaac</a> consider this civilization to be indigenous, although <a href="/wiki/Sabaeans" title="Sabaeans">Sabaean</a>-influenced due to the latter's dominance of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Sea" title="Red Sea">Red Sea</a>, while others like Joseph Michels, Henri de Contenson, Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria, and Stanley Burstein have viewed Dʿmt as the result of a mixture of Sabaeans and indigenous peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tihama_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tihama-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some sources consider the Sabaean influence to be minor, limited to a few localities, and disappeared after a few decades or a century, perhaps representing a trading or military colony in some sort of symbiosis or military alliance with the civilization of Dʿmt or some other proto-Aksumite state.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Archaeologist Rodolfo Fattovich believed that there was a division in the population of Dʿmt and northern <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> due to the kings ruling over the <i>'sb</i> (Sabaeans) and the <i>'br</i>, the 'Reds' and the 'Blacks'.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fattovich also noted that the known kings of Dʿmt worshipped both South Arabian and indigenous gods named <i>'str</i>, <i>Hbs</i>, <i>Dt Hmn</i>, <i>Rb</i>, <i>Šmn</i>, <i>Ṣdqn</i> and <i>Šyhn</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the fall of Dʿmt in the 5th century BC, the plateau came to be dominated by smaller unknown successor kingdoms. This lasted until the rise of one of these polities during the first century BC, the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Aksumite Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Known_rulers">Known rulers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=D%CA%BFmt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Known rulers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following is a list of four known rulers of Dʿmt, in chronological order:<sup id="cite_ref-Tihama_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tihama-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr align="left"> <th width="15%">Term </th> <th width="30%">Name </th> <th width="25%">Queen </th> <th width="30%">Notes </th></tr> <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec"> <td rowspan="5">Dates from ca. 700 BC to ca. 650 BC </td></tr> <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec"> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Monarch" title="Monarch">Mlkn</a></i> <b>Wʿrn Ḥywt</b></td> <td><b>ʿArky(t)n</b></td> <td>contemporary of the <a href="/wiki/Sabaeans" title="Sabaeans">Sabaean</a> mukarrib Karib'il Watar </td></tr> <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec"> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mukarrib" title="Mukarrib">Mkrb</a></i>, <i>Mlkn</i> <b>Rdʿm</b></td> <td><b>Smʿt</b></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec"> <td><i>Mkrb</i>, <i>Mlkn Ṣrʿn</i> <b>Rbḥ</b></td> <td><b>Yrʿt</b></td> <td>Son of Wʿrn Ḥywt, "King Ṣrʿn of the tribe YGʿḎ [=Agʿazi, cognate to <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez language">Ge'ez</a>], <i>mkrb</i> of DʿMT and SB'" </td></tr> <tr valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec"> <td><i>Mkrb</i>, <i>Mlkn Ṣrʿn</i> <b>Lmn</b></td> <td><b>ʿAdt</b></td> <td>Son of Rbḥ, contemporary of the Sabaean mukarrib Sumuhu'alay, "King Ṣrʿn of the tribe YGʿḎ, <i>mkrb</i> of DʿMT and SB'" </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regions">Regions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=D%CA%BFmt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barka_(Eritrea)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barka (Eritrea)">Barka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bur_Province" title="Bur Province">Bur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamasien" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamasien">Hamasien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marya" title="Marya">Marya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seraye" class="mw-redirect" title="Seraye">Seraye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeha" title="Yeha">Yeha</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=D%CA%BFmt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Eritrea" title="History of Eritrea">History of Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ethiopia" title="History of Ethiopia">History of Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Kingdom of Aksum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Land_of_Punt" title="Land of Punt">Land of Punt</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=D%CA%BFmt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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