Tributary network · approximate1415 – 1577 · 162 years
Adal Sultanate
Overview
The Adal Sultanate, also known as the Adal Empire or Barr Saʿad dīn, was a medieval Sunni Muslim empire which was located in the Horn of Africa. It was founded by Sabr ad-Din III on the Harar plateau in Adal after the fall of the Sultanate of Ifat. The kingdom flourished c. 1415 to 1577. At its height, the polity under Sultan Badlay controlled the territory stretching from Cape Guardafui in Somalia to the port city of Suakin in Sudan.
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Borders & accuracy
A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
- SNAPSHOT1530
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Wars of this empire11
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Oromo migrations1522–1618World-changing
- World-changing
- Adal–Ethiopian wars (pre-Gragn)1415–1527Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Ethiopian-Adal War1529–59Significant · 30K dead
- Zara Yaqob's Adal wars1434–68Significant
- Battle of Gomit1445Significant
- Mahfuz's jihads1490–1517Significant
- Significant
- Battle of Wofla1542Significant
- Battle of Hazalo1559Significant
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Cite as: Adal Sultanate (1415 – 1577). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-adal-sultanate · Sources & methodology