Battle_of_Antukyah

Battle of Antukyah

Battle of Antukyah

1531 battle of Ethiopia–Adal War

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 89 kilometres (55 miles) south of Lake Hayq, at the edge of the Ethiopian Highlands, in the modern district of Antsokiya and Gemza.[3]

Quick Facts Date, Location ...

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.[1] The Futuh al-Habasha compared the number of dead and wounded to the previous Battle of Shimbra Kure.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Frederick A. Edwards (1905). The Conquest of Abyssinia pp.335.
  2. [2]
    Dennis Showalter, Early Modern Wars 1500–1775
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    Sihab ad-Din Ahmad, Futuh, p. 139.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Battle_of_Antukyah, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.