Examples of Sabaeans in the following topics:
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Kingdom of Aksum
- Aksum was previously thought to have been founded by Sabaeans, an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what is today Yemen, in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula.
- However, most scholars now agree that prior to the arrival of Sabaeans, an African settlement by the Agaw people and other Ethiopian groups had already existed in the territory.
- Sabaean influence is now thought to have been minor, limited to a few localities, and disappearing after a few decades or a century, perhaps representing a trading or military colony.
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The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia
- Additionally, from the beginning of the first millennium BCE, Southern Arabia was the home to a number of kingdoms, such as the Sabaean kingdom, and the coastal areas of Eastern Arabia were controlled by the Iranian Parthians and Sassanians from 300 BCE.
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Ethiopia and Eritrea
- The first kingdom thought to have existed in today's Ethiopia was the kingdom of D'mt, with its capital at Yeha, where a Sabaean-style temple was built around 700 BCE.