Battle of Antukyah
| Battle of Antukyah | |||||||
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| Part of the Ethiopian–Adal war | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Adal Sultanate |
 Ethiopian Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi | Eslamu, Governor of Fatagar | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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12,000 men 500 horses[1] | Unknown | ||||||
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.[2]
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.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b Frederick A. Edwards. 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.
- ^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad, Futuh, p. 139.