Battle of Antukyah | |||||||
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Part of Ethiopian–Adal War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Adal Sultanate | Ethiopia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi | Eslamu, Governor of Fatagar | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
12,000 men, 500 horses [1] | 100,000 men, 600 horses |
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The Battle of Antukyah was fought in 1531 between the forces of Adal under Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi and an Ethiopian army under Eslamu. Huntingford has located Antukyah about 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]