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Name: Sultanate of Ifat

Type: Polity

Start: 1286 AD

End: 1415 AD

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Was a medieval Sunni Muslim state in the eastern regions of the Horn of Africa.

Establishment

  • January 1286: Sultan Umar Walashma of the Walashma Dynasty established Ifat in 1285 with the conquest of the Shewa Sultanate.

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    1. Events

  • January 1301: The Sultanate of Ifat conquered other areas of Shewa and Afar and the adjoining regions Fatajar, Dawaro, Bale and Adal were added.

  • January 1401: Ennarea became independent from the kingdom of Damot in the 14th century.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 1416: The Adal Sultanate was founded by Sabr ad-Din II after the fall of the Sultanate of Ifat.
  • January 1416: Isaak (Yeshaq) of Ethiopia conquered and annexed the Sultanate of Ifat in 1415.

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