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Ifat was a Muslim state of eastern Shewa, located in modern day Ethiopia. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ...
Shewa (also spelled Shoa) is a historical region of Ethiopia. ...
The sultanate of Ifat began to rise to power in the 13th century, during the dynasty of the leader 'Umar Walashma. Walasham embraced Fatajar, Dawaro and Bale, and conquered the sultanate of Shoa, and Ifat was established as a major power by 1285. This new territory gave Ifat control of the trade route from Zeila and hence it became a major trading power. However, the Christian kingdom of Amhara, Ethiopia began to feel threatened by the ascendency of Islam in its surrounding states of Ifat, Afar, Somali and Harer. A lengthy war ensued, but the Muslim sultanates of the time were not strongly unified and the language barrier between Cushitic-speaking Ifat and Semitic-speaking Harer made coordinated campaigns difficult to maintain. Ifat was finally defeated by Amda Siyon, the king of Ethiopia, in 1328, and became a tributary. A sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic monarch ruling under the terms of shariah. ...
(12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
Bale was a province in the south-eastern part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Goba. ...
Shoa may have the following meanings Shoah, or Holocaust Shoa, Ethiopia Part of a famous quote by Brandon ripper Vedas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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Saylac (also Seyla`, Seelaac, Zeila, Zeyla, Zeylac, Zayla, Séyla‘, Seylac, 11. ...
A Christian is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
Amhara (አማራ) may refer to: Amhara, an ethnic group of Ethiopia. ...
Afar is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia. ...
Harar, also spelled Harrar sometime harer, is a city in Ethiopia, situated in the eastern extension of the Ethiopian highlands, about five hundred km from Addis Ababa. ...
The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. ...
12th century Hebrew Bible script The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people across much of the Middle East, where they originated, and North and East Africa. ...
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A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ...
After this time, there were continual revolts from the Muslim people of Ifat. In 1415, the aggressive Adal leader Negus Yeshaq branded the Muslims of the surrounding area "enemies of the Lord" and invaded Ifat. The Ifat armies were crushed once and for all and their king, Saad ad Din, fled to an island near Saylac. Yeshaq persued and the king was killed. Soon, Ifat was annexed to Ethiopia, and ceased to exist. Yeshaq commanded that a hymn of thanksgiving be composed to celebrate the victory and, incidentally, this hymn includes the first written record of the name Somali. Events Friedrich I Hohenzollern (b. ...
This article is about the African sultanate. ...
Zeila (also Seyla`, Seelaac, Zaila, Zeyla, Zeylac, Zayla, Séyla‘, Seylac) (Somali: Saylac) 11. ...
Annexation is the legal merging of some territory into another body. ...
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