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Ethiopia-Axum, the ancient dominant
power in the region, gradually
incorporated the African-Yemenites into
its political sway.
By 12th century B.C. Southern Arabia
fell under the complete control of the
Ethiopian-Axumites through their long
domination of the Red Sea trade routes.
The first kingdom built by the
Ethiopian-Axumites in Arabia was Saba
just across the straits in Yemen in 800
B.C. See Ephraim Isaac and Cain Felder,
“Reflections on the Origins of the
Ethiopian Civilization”, Eight
International Conferences of Ethiopian
Studies, November 1984. Successive
civilisations of Mineans, Sabaeans and
Himyarites interacted closely with their
counterparts in Ethiopia.

from the 5th and 6th centuries in the
Yemen Hadramawt, suggesting that
there may have been substantial
immigration during that period. )