Battle of Antukyah

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Battle of Antukyah
Part of Ethiopian–Adal War
Date 1531
Location Ethiopia, 55 miles south of Lake Hayq
Result Decisive Adal victory
Belligerents
Adal Sultanate Ethiopia
Commanders
Imam Ahmad Gragn Eslamu
v • d • e
Ethiopian-Adal War
Shimbra Kure –

Antukyah – Amba Sel – Sahart – Jarte – Wofla –

Wayna Daga

The Battle of Antukyah was fought in 1531 between the forces of Adal under Imam Ahmad Gragn and an Ethiopian army under Eslamu. Huntingford has located Antukyah about 55 miles south of Lake Hayq, at the edge of the Ethiopian highlands.[1]

Despite the care Eslamu took in deploying his men, the Ethiopian army panicked and fled when the Imam's cannons were fired. The Futuh al-Habasha compared the number of dead and wounded to the previous Battle of Shimbra Kure.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad, Futuh, p. 139.
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