Conflicts of the Ifat Sultanate in the Horn of Africa

Name: Conflicts of the Ifat Sultanate in the Horn of Africa
Start: 1403
End: 1410

Type Event Region Africa Time 1403–1410

Around 1403 CE, the Somali Ifat Sultanate and Ethiopia's Solomonid dynasty fought a series of military conflicts along the highland-lowland frontier …

Timeline

1403–1405Shoa-Ifat border · EthiopiaIfat's Muslim forces and vassals of Ethiopia's Christian kingdom engaged in raids and retaliatory military actions along the border, contesting control of lowland trade routes.
1406–1410Eastern Ethiopian Highlands · EthiopiaThe Solomonid dynasty launched a counterattack, attempting to restore suzerainty over Ifat and reorganize vassal relations; the conflict see-sawed without a decisive long-term outcome.

Sources

Ifat https://www.britannica.com/place/Ifat
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3: c.1050–c.1600 — Roland Oliver (1977)