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Ethiopian–Adal War
1529–1543 war between the Ethiopian Empire and Adal Sultanate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ethiopian–Adal War or Abyssinian–Adal War, also known in Arabic as Futūḥ Al-Ḥabaša (Arabic: فتوح الحبش, lit. 'Conquest of Abyssinia'), was a military conflict between the Christian Ethiopian Empire and the Muslim Adal Sultanate from 1529 to 1543. The Christian Ethiopian troops consisted of the Amhara, Tigrayans, Tigrinya and Agaw people, and at the closing of the war, supported by the Portuguese Empire with no less than four hundred musketeers.[4] The Adal forces were composed of Harla,[5] Somali,[6] Afar, as well as Arab and Turkish gunmen. Both sides would see the Maya mercenaries at times join their ranks.[7]: 188
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Part of the Somali–Portuguese conflicts, Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560) | |||||||||
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