Dawaro

Dawaro was a Muslim principality on the eastern Ethiopian highland edge, east of Hadiya and north of Bale. After its ruler Haydara joined Ifat's rebellion and killed imperial envoys, Amda Seyon I devastated Dawaro and made it tributary before 1337.

Emperor Zara Yaqob stationed Christian garrisons and killed Adal's sultan Badlay at Gomit in 1445. Adal's imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi raided Dawaro in 1526 and occupied it in 1531, when his forces destroyed a great church. Emperor Gelawdewos recovered it, but Oromo advances in the 1540s ended the principality.