Soba

City · 400–1504 CE · in the Middle East

Capital of Alodia (600–1504).

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• Faras (c. 400–650 CE): Capital of Nobatia (400–650).
• Turkistan (401 CE): Capital of Kazakh Khanate (1599–1729).
• Zhangye (c. 397 CE): Capital of Northern Liang (397–439).
• Ravenna (c. 395 CE): Capital of Western Roman Empire (395–476), Ostrogothic Kingdom (500–553).
• Mediolanum (c. 395–402 CE): Capital of Western Roman Empire (395–402).
• Lanzhou (c. 387 CE): Capital of Western Qin (387–431).
• Pingcheng District (c. 387 CE): Capital of Northern Wei (387–533).
• Braga (c. 414 CE): Capital of Kingdom of the Suebi (414–585), Kingdom of Galicia (911–1125).
• Gyeongju (c. 378 CE): Capital of Silla (378–681), Unified Silla (682–892).
• Jiankang (c. 426 CE): Capital of Liu Song Dynasty (426–479), Southern Qi (480–502), Chen Dynasty (561–589).

Around the same time and place

• Muhammad (c. 570 CE – 632 CE): The prophet of Islam, born in Mecca, who united much of Arabia under the new faith before his death in Medina.
• First revelation of the Quran (c. 610 CE): According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad received his first revelation in the cave of Hira near Mecca in 610, beginning the Quran and the religion of Islam.
• The Hijra (622 CE): Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina, where he established the first Muslim community; the year marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
• Ibn Battuta’s travels: Maghreb, Arabia and East Africa (1325–1332 CE): The Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta left Tangier on the hajj in 1325, visited Egypt, Syria, Mecca and Iraq, then sailed down the East African coast to Kilwa and back via Oman and the Persian Gulf. His Rihla records some 30 years of travel.
• Aksum (c. 100 CE): Capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, a Red Sea trading power in the Horn of Africa from around the 1st century CE that minted its own coinage and raised monumental stelae.
• Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela (c. 1200 CE): Eleven monolithic churches carved out of rock around the late 12th and early 13th centuries under King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty.
• Haile Selassie (1892 CE – 1975 CE): Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who appealed to the League of Nations against the Italian invasion; deposed by the Derg military junta in 1974.
• Battle of Adwa (1896 CE): Ethiopian forces under Emperor Menelik II decisively defeated an Italian army on 1 March 1896, securing Ethiopia's independence during the Scramble for Africa.

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