Kunama

The Kunama inhabited the Gash and Setit river region of present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. In the tenth century Ibn Hawqal described Kunama communities in the Barka valley as worshipping Anna.

In 1692 Ethiopian emperor Iyasu I attacked the Kunama in the Mareb valley. Terrified by musket fire, they fled; his men pursued them, killed inhabitants and plundered their settlements.