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Dakkar (Harari: ደክከር Däkkär, Somali: Doggor), also known as Dakar, or Deker, was a historical Muslim town located in present-day eastern Ethiopia.It served as the first capital of the Adal Sultanate after its founding in the early 15th century by Sabr ad-Din III.
The Ethiopian–Adal War, also known as the Abyssinian–Adal War and Futūḥ Al-Ḥabaša (Arabic: فتوح الحبش, lit. ' Conquest of Abyssinia '), was a war fought between the Christian Ethiopian Empire and the Muslim Adal Sultanate from 1529 to 1543.
Maritime trade continued through the Middle Ages, however this was no longer in the hands of the Ethiopian kingdom, but instead controlled by Muslim merchants. Beginning in the 8th century, a trade route to the Dahlak Archipelago was Ethiopia's link to the Red Sea, but a route between Shewa and Zeila came to prominence in the late 13th century.
The Adal rise to power resulted in a series of conflicts with the Ethiopian Empire, and eventually the Ethiopian–Adal War in 1529. Adal's general Ahmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (Ahmed Gran) quickly seized the Ethiopian Empire by conquering most of the Ethiopian Highlands, reaching northern Tigray Province in the Battle of Amba Sel in 1531. Dawit ...
The Ethiopian–Adal War was in response to the death of Harla leader of Adal, Imam Mahfuz, killed in single combat, by the warrior-monk Gebre Andrias in the early reign of Emperor Dawit II. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] According to Chekroun, during the war the Harla clans were organized in a manner similar to the Somali clans. [ 34 ]
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of ...
The administrative and political center of Adal was always in Harar during the war. On page 51 of History of Ethiopian Towns from the Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century by Richard Pankhurst, he still describes Harar as being the political center of the Adal Sultanate, as the nominal rulers of Adal were still based in that city.
The Ethiopian historian Taddesse Tamrat argues the Ethiopian royal chronicles of this era often deliberately attempted to suppress the violent deaths of the kings whose reigns they extol. [8] However, Taddesse Tamrat himself puts the end of Dawit's reign at 1412, contradicting Pankhurst's presumption of the Emperor's death in this battle and ...