Adal Sultanate

This article is about the specific polity Adal Sultanate and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a medieval Sunni Muslim Empire which was located in the Horn of Africa.

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. 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.