Harla kingdom
Harla kingdom | |||||||||
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| 501–1500 | |||||||||
| Capital | Harlaa | ||||||||
| Common languages | Harla | ||||||||
| Religion | Traditional religion(s); (before c. 701) Islam; (after c. 701) | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 501 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1500 | ||||||||
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The Harla kingdom was a sixth-century Harla state centered around what is present day eastern Ethiopia. It is regarded as the most powerful state in the region after the fall of the adjacent Kingdom of Axum in the 7th century. Its territory stretched from Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia to the northern area of modern Djibouti prior to the advent of Islam in the region. Timothy Insoll identifies the Harlaa ruins to be Hubat the capital of the Harla state, a subordinate of Ifat Sultanate in the thirteenth century and later under the Adal Sultanate as an autonomous tribal confederation in the fifteenth century. Researcher Dominico Patassini states the Harla kingdom was succeeded by Harar city-state in the sixteenth century.