Significant1531

Battle of Amba Sel

Amba Sel · Wollo

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Gragn's victory at Amba Sel scattered the last large Ethiopian field army and led to the looting of Lalibela and Aksum.

Belligerents2

  • Ethiopian Empire
  • Adal Sultanate

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)Adal Sultanate

Conflict graph

PART OFEthiopian-Adal War

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Amba Sel (1531). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-amba-sel · Sources & methodology