It eventually became isolated, its economy slumped and Aksum's commercial domination of the region ended. The Aksumite empire fell into decline with the rise of Islam in the Arabian peninsula, which slowly shifted trade away from the Christian Aksum. Ezana's reign is also when the Aksumites first identified themselves as " Ethiopians", and not long after, Philostorgius became the first foreign author to call the Aksumites Ethiopians. In the early fourth century, during the reign of Ezana, Christianity was declared the state religion. In the first century AD the Aksumite Kingdom rose to power in the Tigray Region with its capital at Aksum and grew into a major power on the Red Sea, subjugating Yemen and Meroe. One of the early kingdoms to rise to power in the territory was the kingdom of D'mt in the 10th century BC, which established its capital at Yeha. Due to migration and imperial expansion, it grew to include many other primarily Afro-Asiatic-speaking communities, including Amhara, Oromos, Somalis, Tigray, Afars, Sidama, Gurage, Agaw and Harari, among others. The Ethiopian Empire (Abyssinia) was first founded by Ethiopian people in the Ethiopian Highlands. The article covers the history of Ethiopia from its emergence as an empire under the Aksumites to its current form as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia as well as the history of other areas in what is now Ethiopia such as the Afar Triangle.
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