The Battle of Zeila was an armed encounter that took place in the city of Zeila, in modern-day Somaliland, between the forces of the Sultanate of Adal and those of the Portuguese empire, under the command of the governor of India Lopo Soares de Albergaria. After a brief fight, the Portuguese captured and razed the city.
^Francisco Álvares: "The Voyage of Sir Francis Alvarez, a Portugall Priest, made unto the Court of Prete Janni the great Christian Emperour of Ethiopia" in Samuel Purchas: Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Volume 7, Cambridge University Press, p. 179.
Zeila (Somali: Saylac, Arabic: زيلع, romanized: Zayla), also known as Zaila or Zayla, is a historical port town in the western Awdal region of Somaliland...
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alternatively known as the federation ofZeila. Adal is believed to be an abbreviation of Havilah. Eidal or Aw Abdal, was the Emir of Harar in the eleventh century...
out to the Egyptians, who had annexed Zeila and Berbera. By 1873, the Egyptians peacefully took control ofZeila, Berbera and Bulhar (which was temporarily...
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of the Land of Punt. Nearby Zeila, now in Somaliland, was the seat of the medieval Adal and Ifat Sultanates. In the late 19th century, the colony of French...
Zeila. Burton described Sharmarke as such: The Hajj Sharmarkay in his youth was a man of valour: he could not read or write; but he carried in battle...
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made his brother Hamid, wazir of Harar. Haygan Hashim was made the governor of Aussa, while Hashim was made governor ofZeila. Sultan Muhammed is also credited...
are the predominant clan of the Awdal Region. They are mainly found in cities and towns such as Borama, Baki, Lughaya, Zeila, Dilla, Jarahorato, Amud...
governing Zeila, Berbera and Tadjoura. In 1841 Sharmarke with fifty Matchlock men, two cannons and an army of mounted spearmen managed to invade Zeila and depose...
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