Muslim sultanate of the Horn that waged the Ahmad Gran wars against Christian Ethiopia.
Effectively destroyed as a military power in 1576 when Emperor Sarsa Dengel defeated and executed Adalite Sultan Muhammad ibn Nasir at the Battle of Webi River; the sultanate formally fragmented by 1577 when the capital relocated to Aussa as the Imamate of Aussa, with Harar surviving as a walled city-state amid the Oromo expansion.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Adal Sultanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1415 · 1496 · 1515.
Survey covering the Adal Sultanate and the Ahmad Gran wars (broad regional context).
Continental history of the Muslim Horn and its wars with Ethiopia (broad context).