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According to Procopius ( Histories 1. 20 ), ' Abraha seized the control of Yemen from Esimiphaeus ( Sumuafa ' Ashawa '), the Christian Himyarite viceroy appointed by Kaléb, with the support of dissident elements within the Aksum occupation force who were eager to settle in the Yemen, then a rich and fertile land.

Stuart Munro-Hay, who proposes a 518 date for the rise of Dhu Nuwas, dates this event to 525, while by the later chronology ( in which Dhu Nuwas comes to power in 523 ), this event would have happened about 530, although a date as late as 543 has been postulated by Jacques Ryckmans.