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Battle of Antukyah

1531 battle of Ethiopia–Adal War

Summary

1531 battle of Ethiopia–Adal War

Field	Value
conflict	Battle of Antukyah
partof	the Ethiopian–Adal War
date	1531
place	Ethiopia, 55 mi south of Lake Hayq
territory	Shewa, Fatagar and Ifat annexed by Adal
result	Adalite victory
combatant1	Flag of Adal Sultanate.svg Adal Sultanate
combatant2	[[File:Ethiopian_Pennants.svg	22px]] Ethiopian Empire
commander1	Flag of Adal Sultanate.svg Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
commander2	[[File:Ethiopian_Pennants.svg	22px]] Eslamu, Governor of Fatagar
strength1	12,000 men
500 horses
(per Arab Faqīh) and 7 cannons
strength2	"anything up to 100,000 men"Dennis Showalter, Early Modern Wars 1500–1775
[https://books.google.com/books?id	k_GxAgAAQBAJ&dq=Wofla+1542&pg=PT59]
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500 horses (per Arab Faqīh) and 7 cannons https://books.google.com/books?id=k_GxAgAAQBAJ&dq=Wofla+1542&pg=PT59 The Battle of Antukyah was fought in 1531 between Adal Sultanate forces under Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi and the Abyssinian army under Eslamu. Huntingford has located Antukyah about 55 mi south of Lake Hayq, at the edge of the Ethiopian Highlands, in the modern district of Antsokiya and Gemza.

Despite the care Eslamu took in deploying his men, and the number of them, the Ethiopian army panicked and fled when the Imam's cannons cut down thousands of them, during the pursuit Garad Hirabu pursued the Abyssinians with the Malassay and confronting the Abyssinian army three weeks later at the Battle of Zari.

Notes

References

Frederick A. Edwards. (1905). "The Conquest of Abyssinia pp.335".
Cited in Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, ''Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia'', translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), p. 35n. 137.
According to sixteenth century Adal writer of ''[[Futuh al-Habasha]]'' [[Shihab al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Sālim ibn ʿUthmān. Arab Faqīh]], the number of dead and wounded was comparable to the previous [[Battle of Shimbra Kure]].Sihab ad-Din Ahmad, ''Futuh'', p. 139.

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