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 | |||||||||
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Ahmad ibn Ibrahim |
Eslamu Sagad | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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12,000 men 500 cavalry 7 cannons[1][a] | "anything up to 100,000 men under Eslamu" [2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 800 | 1,500 | ||||||||
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]
Despite the care Eslamu took in deploying his men and their veteran status, the Ethiopian army panicked and fled when the Imam's cannons cut down hundreds of them. During the pursuit, Garad Hirabu pursued the Abyssinians with the Malassay and confronted the Abyssinian army three weeks later at the Battle of Zari.[1] According to 16th century Adal writer of Futuh al-Habasha Arab Faqīh, the number of Ethiopian losses numbered around 1,500, while the number of Adalite losses was around 800.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Per Arab Faqīh.
References
- 1 2 Frederick A. Edwards (1905). The Conquest of Abyssinia pp.335.
- ↑ Dennis Showalter, Early Modern Wars 1500–1775
- ↑ 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.