Dankali

Dankali was a Muslim kingdom of the Afar, or Danakil, on the Red Sea coast below the Ethiopian highlands. Its wealth rested on the Arho salt plains, whose salt went by caravan to highland markets.

In the 1470s its ruler offered Emperor Ba'eda Maryam help against the Dobe'a. The kings were Ethiopian vassals: in 1620 Kamil, ousted by his brother, sought restoration at Emperor Susenyos's camp. Oromo raids divided the Danakil from the late sixteenth century; loss of the salt plains and Ottoman control of the ports broke the kingdom into petty sultanates in the eighteenth.