Hadiya

Hadiya was a Muslim kingdom south of Shewa in the Ethiopian highlands. After King Amano refused tribute, Emperor Amda Seyon I crushed the revolt and made Hadiya an autonomous tributary of the Christian empire, its status in 1337.

Emperor Zara Yaqob deposed and killed the rebellious garad Mahiko and married the Hadiya princess Eleni. Hadiya's ties to Adal helped provoke the Battle of Gomit in 1445. It welcomed Ahmad al-Ghazi in the 1520s, then lost territory to the Oromo; in the seventeenth century its ruler Sidi Mohammed defeated Emperor Susenyos I.