Dakkar

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Dakkar
Dakkar

Location in Ethiopia

Coordinates: 9°30′N 42°36′E / 9.500°N 42.600°E / 9.500; 42.600Coordinates: 9°30′N 42°36′E / 9.500°N 42.600°E / 9.500; 42.600
Country Ethiopia
Region Somali
Zone Shinile
Elevation 2,031 m (6,663 ft)

Dakkar was an historical town in eastern modern-day Ethiopia.

History

It was the second capital of the medieval Adal Sultanate, after the polity moved its initial headquarters from Zeila in modern-day northwestern Somalia.[1]

G.W.B. Huntingford suggests that Dakkar might be the same as the modern Chinhahsan, which is located at the edge of the Marar plain 15 miles NW of Jijiga.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, I. M. (1999). A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa. James Currey Publishers. p. 17. ISBN 0852552807.
  2. ↑ G.W.B. Huntingford, Historical Geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704 (London: British Academy, 1989),p. 87
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