adal sultanate
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The Nation includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Establishment
- January 1416: The Adal Sultanate was founded by Sabr ad-Din II after the fall of the Sultanate of Ifat.
Chronology
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1. Abyssinian-Adal War
Was a military conflict between the Christian Ethiopian Empire and the Muslim Adal Sultanate from 1529 to 1543.
- October 1531: Battle of Amba Sel.
- February 1543: The Bahr negus also joined Emperor Gelawdewos and the Portuguese in the decisive Battle of Wayna Daga, where Imam Ahmad was killed. The death of Imam Ahmed and the victory in the Battle of Wayna Daga caused a semi-collapse of Ahmed forces and forced a Somali retreat from Ethiopia.
2. Conquests of Selim II
Expansion during the rule of Selim II in the Ottoman Empire.
- January 1568: Özdemir Pasha, a deputy of the Ottoman Empire admiral, conquered the west bank of the Red Sea in 1567 during the reign of Selim II. This territory roughly corresponds to a narrow coastal strip of Sudan and Eritrea.
3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)
- January 1501: The Kingdom of Janjero was a tiny kingdom located in what is now Ethiopia established c.15th century.
Disestablishment
- January 1578: A large part of the Adal state apparatus disappears.
- January 1578: Establishment of the Sultanate of Harar.