Berbera replaces Zeila as the northern hub …
Years: 1540 - 1683
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.
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
Groups
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Somalis
- Islam
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Adal Sultanate
- Ottoman Empire
- Adal, Sultanate of
- Christians, Assyrian (Assyrian Church of the East)
- Adal Sultanate
- Abyssinia (also called "Mecca and Medina"), Ottoman eyalet of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
