D'mt

Dʿmt
ደዐመተ
c. 980 BC–c. 400 BC
Capital		Yeha
Government		Monarchy
History
•	Established	c. 980 BC
•	Disestablished	c. 400 BC
Succeeded by Aksumite Empire
Today part of		Eritrea and Ethiopia

Dʿmt (South Arabian alphabet: ; Unvocalized Ge'ez: ደዐመተ, DʿMT theoretically vocalized as ዳዓማት Daʿamat or ዳዕማት Daʿəmat) was a kingdom located in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia that existed during the 10th to 5th centuries BC. Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom survive and very little archaeological work has taken place. As a result, it is not known whether Dʿmt ended as a civilization before Aksum's early stages, evolved into the Aksumite state, or was one of the smaller states united in the Aksumite kingdom possibly around the beginning of the 1st century.

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