Realm · approximate borders · 450–528

Kindah Kingdom

Hujrid kings of Kinda ruled the Ma'add tribes of north and central Arabia c. 450–550, as clients of Himyar; their power collapsed after al-Harith ibn Amr's death in 528.

Their tribal hegemony (Najd and al-Yamama) had no fixed frontier. Sources: Wikipedia 'Kingdom of Kinda'.

See Kindah Kingdom on the map in 450

On the map: 450–528
Capital: Qaryat al-Faw / Ghamr Dhi Kinda (uncertain)

Rulers named in the sources

Hujr Akil al-Murar c. 450–480
Amr al-Maqsur c. 480–500
al-Harith ibn Amr c. 500–528

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.