Berbera replaces Zeila as the northern hub…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

Berbera replaces Zeila as the northern hub of Islamic influence in the Horn of Africa.

By the middle of the sixteenth century, Saylac and Berbera have become dependencies of the sharifs of Mecca and in the seventeenth century pass to the Ottoman Turks, who exercise authority over them through locally recruited Somali governors.

Locations
Berbera Woqooyi Galbeed Somalia View →

Groups
Arab people View → Persian people View → Somalis View → Islam View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View → Adal Sultanate View → Ottoman Empire View → Adal, Sultanate of View → Christians, Assyrian (Assyrian Church of the East) View → Adal Sultanate View → Abyssinia (also called "Mecca and Medina"), Ottoman eyalet of View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View →

Topics
Abyssinian–Adal war View → Sub-Saharan Africa, Modern View →

Subjects
Commerce View → Government View →

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