Ethiopian–Adal War
| Ethiopian–Adal War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman-Ethiopian Wars, Somali–Portuguese conflicts and Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560) | |||||||||
Early 20th century folk drawing of Cristóvão da Gama and Imam Ahmad's deaths. | |||||||||
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Ethiopian Empire Portuguese Empire (1541–43) |
Adal Sultanate Ottoman Empire (1542–43) | ||||||||
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Dawit II # Gelawdewos Cristóvão da Gama | Ahmad ibn Ibrahim † | ||||||||
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. 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. The Adal forces were composed of Harla/Harari, Somali, Afar as well as Arab and Turkish gunmen. Both sides would see the Maya mercenaries at times join their ranks. The conflict was followed shortly by the 16th century Ottoman–Ethiopian War.