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Zeila in the sixteenth century becomes the …
Years: 1540 - 1683
Zeila in the sixteenth century becomes the principal outlet for trade in coffee, gold, ostrich feathers, civet, and enslaved Ethiopians for the Middle East, China, and India.
The city emerges over time as the center of Muslim culture and learning, famed for its schools and mosques.
Eventually it becomes the capital of the medieval state of Adal, which in the sixteenth century fights off Christian Ethiopian domination of the highlands.
Between 1560 and 1660, Ethiopian expeditions repeatedly harried Zeila, which sinks into decay.
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- Arab people
- Persian people
- Somalis
- Islam
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Adal Sultanate
- Adal, Sultanate of
- Christians, Assyrian (Assyrian Church of the East)
- Adal Sultanate
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
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Years: 1540 - 1683
Locations
Groups
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Somalis
- Islam
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Adal Sultanate
- Adal, Sultanate of
- Christians, Assyrian (Assyrian Church of the East)
- Adal Sultanate
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
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