Tributary network · approximate1270 – 1415 · 145 years
Ifat Sultanate
Overview
The Sultanate of Ifat, known as Wafāt or Awfāt in Arabic texts, or the Kingdom of Zeila was a medieval Sunni Muslim state in the eastern regions of the Horn of Africa between the late 13th century and early 15th century. It was formed in present-day Ethiopia around eastern Shewa in Ifat. Led by the Walashma dynasty, the polity stretched from Zequalla to the port city of Zeila. The kingdom ruled over parts of what are now Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia.
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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
- SNAPSHOT1350
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Wars of this empire6
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Amda Seyon's campaigns1314–44World-changing
- Ifat–Ethiopian wars1320–1415Major conflict
- Dawit I's campaigns1380–1413Significant
- Yeshaq I's Adal war1413–30Significant
- Significant
- Yagbe'u Seyon's wars1285–94Regional
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Cite as: Ifat Sultanate (1270 – 1415). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-ifat-sultanate · Sources & methodology