Battle of Antukyah
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Battle of Antukyah was fought in 1531 between Adal Sultanate forces under Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi moslem Ethiopian Jihadist 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.[1]
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.[2] The Futuh al-Habasha compared the number of dead and wounded to the previous Battle of Shimbra Kure.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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