Adal Sultanate

Adal was a sixteenth century province-cum-sultanate of Ethiopia located in modern Somali, Oromia, and Afar regions in Ethiopia, as well as southern Djibouti and northwestern Somalia. Prior to its invasion of Ethiopia under Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi in 1527, it was a province of the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia. At its height, the sultanate controlled large portions of Ethiopia and Somaliland.