Sharkha

Sharkha was a predominantly Muslim province in southern Ethiopia, bordering Hadiya, Dawaro and Bale. In the fourteenth century Emperor Amda Seyon raided its livestock-rich lands and captured its governor Yusuf, accusing him of cooperating with Dawaro.

In 1531 ten horsemen sent by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi scattered an Ethiopian force in Sharkha; the province later came under the Adal governor Siddiq ibn Ali. Emperor Sarsa Dengel marched through the region in 1577; Sharkha appears to have disappeared as a political unit by the seventeenth century.