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October 1531, also
known as
Garad Matan, was a
Somali military commander and
Adalite general that
served the Adal Sultanate. He led key and
decisive battles...
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mountains of Mokha,
where he
encountered a 30,000
strong Solomonic army. The
Adalite soldiers surrounded their enemies and for two
months besieged the trapped...
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reconciled the two leaders.
Ahmad was
forced to
recognize the
authority of the
Adalite state for the
first time in his career.: 327–328 This
peace was immediately...
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captured items of the
Imperial regalia.
These victories allowed the
Adalites to
enter the
Ethiopian highlands,
where they
began to sack and burn numerous...
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Dengel brought about the
early 16th-century
jihad of the Ottoman-supported
Adalite Imam
Ahmed Gran, who was
defeated in 1543 with the help of the Portuguese...
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Wazir Abbas was an
Adalite General who
became Grand Vizier of the Adal
Sultanate in 1535. The
nephew of
Ahmed Gurey, he led the
Adalite conquest of Medri...
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chieftain of Geri
Koombe fully supported the
Jihad and
served as an
Adalite general,
second in
command to Imam Ahmed. He also sent a
messenger to the...
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Addalu fell and was
promptly beheaded by the
Adalite soldiers. His men
therefore fled,
pursued by the
Adalites who
killed many
Christians and took many others...
- al-Qādir ibn Sālim ibn ʿUthmān, most
commonly known as Arab Faqīh, was an
Adalite writer of the
chronicle "****uh al-Habasha", a
first hand
account of the...
- ” It is
noted that
Ahmad Girri Bin
Hussein was one of the most
capable Adalite generals alongside Garad Matan. He was the
chieftain of the
Yabarray clan...
