Harla

The Harla were a Muslim people of the eastern Ethiopian lowlands, centred on Harlaa, or Hubat, northwest of Harar. By the thirteenth century they served the Walashma sultans of Ifat.

Under Adal they formed an autonomous confederation and supplied its elite Malassay troops. Ahmed Gran seized power at Harar by executing the Walashma sultan. Oromo invasions and Adal's move to Aussa in 1577 broke the Harla polity by the late sixteenth century; survivors merged into Somali, Afar and Oromo societies.