The religion may have been adopted to some extent as much as two centuries earlier, but inscriptions to polytheistic deities ceased after this date. 384 to 433 CE), Judaism was adopted as the de facto state religion. Since at least the reign of Abikarib Asʿad (c. The Himyarites originally worshiped most of the South-Arabian pantheon, including Wadd, ʿAthtar, 'Amm and Almaqah. Himyar then endured until it finally fell to invaders from the Kingdom of Aksum in 525 CE. Its political fortunes relative to Saba' changed frequently until it finally conquered the Sabaean Kingdom around 280. 25 BCE (for the first time), Qataban in c.

The kingdom conquered neighbouring Saba' in c. After the establishment of their kingdom, it was ruled by kings from dhū-Raydān tribe.

Himyarite power eventually shifted to Sana’a as the population increased in the fifth century. According to classical sources, their capital was the ancient city of Zafar, relatively near the modern-day city of Sana'a. Until 110 BCE, it was integrated into the Qatabanian kingdom, afterwards being recognized as an independent kingdom. 110 BCE–520s CE), historically referred to as the Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans (its subjects being called Homeritae), was a polity in the southern highlands of Yemen, as well as the name of the region which it claimed.

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