Bazin

Bazin was one of the Beja kingdoms described by the ninth-century historian al-Yaqubi. Its people included the Kunama of the Gash lowlands, and in al-Yaqubi's time Bazin was at war with Alodia.

The early Beja kingdoms eventually gave way to the Balaw kingdom. The Kunama later suffered slave raids. In 1692 the Ethiopian emperor Iyasu I attacked them in the Mareb valley, where his men pursued and massacred those fleeing and sacked their towns.