Ethiopian–Adal War

Ethiopian–Adal War
	Part of the Ottoman-Ethiopian Wars, Somali–Portuguese conflicts and Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)
	; Early 20th century folk drawing of Cristóvão da Gama and Imam Ahmad's deaths.
Date	9 March 1529 – 21 February 1543; (13 years, 11 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia
Result	Return to the status quo ante bellum; Withdrawal of the few remaining Adal-Ottoman troops from the Ethiopian Highlands after the death of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi; Reprisal conflict occurs between the armies of the Ethiopian Empire and the Adal Sultanate; Weakening of the Abyssinians and Adalites, which opened the door for The Great Oromo Migrations;
Territorial; changes	Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
Ethiopian Empire; Portuguese Empire (1541–43)	Adal Sultanate; Ottoman Empire (1542–43)
Commanders and leaders
Dawit II X; Gelawdewos; Wasan Sagad †; Eslamu †; Takla Iyasus †; Robēl †; Seble Wongel; Cristóvão da Gama ; António Correa †	Ahmad ibn Ibrahim †; Nur ibn Mujahid; Matan ibn Uthman †; Abu Bakr Qatin; Bati del Wambara; Garad Hirabu; Ahmed Girri; Wazir Abbas

The Ethiopian–Adal War, also known as the Abyssinian–Adal War and Futūḥ Al-Ḥabaša (Arabic: فتوح الحبش, lit. 'Conquest of Abyssinia'), was a war fought between the Christian Ethiopian Empire and the Muslim Adal Sultanate from 1529 to 1543. The Christian Ethiopian troops consisted of the Amhara, Tigrayans, Tigrinya and Agaw people, and at the closing of the war, supported by the Portuguese Empire with no less than four hundred musketeers. The Adal forces were composed of Harla/Harari, Somali, Afar, as well as Arab and Turkish gunmen. Both sides would see the Maya mercenaries at times join their ranks.^: 188 The conflict was followed shortly by the 16th century Ottoman-Ethiopian War