Antukyah, Battle of
1531 CE
The Battle of Antukyah is fought in 1531 between Adal Sultanate forces under Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi moslem Ethiopian Jihadist and the Abyssinian army under Eslamu.
Huntingford has located Antukyah about eighty-nine kilometers (fifty-five miles) south of Lake Hayq, at the edge of the Ethiopian highlands.
Despite the care Eslamu takes in deploying his men, and the number of them, the Ethiopian army panics and flees when the Imam's cannons cut down thousands of them.
The Futuh al-Habasha compares the number of dead and wounded to the previous Battle of Shimbra Kure.
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