Significant1529 – 1559 · 30 years

Ethiopian-Adal War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Ethiopia · Somalia

Estimated casualties

30Ksingle estimate · no range published

30-year conflict between Christian Ethiopia and Muslim Adal sultanate for regional dominance.

Belligerents2

Ethiopia
Adal Sultanate

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)Adal Sultanate

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Amba Sel1531
Battle of Wofla1542
Battle of Hazalo1559

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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