Amora Gadal

Amora Gadal lies east of Lake Ashenge, where the Ethiopian highlands descend toward the Afar lowlands. In the fifteenth century the Dobe'a inhabited the country between Ashenge and Enderta, adjoining the Afar sultanate of Dankali to the east. Emperor Ba'eda Maryam campaigned against the Dobe'a and encouraged their conversion to Christianity. The traveller Francisco Álvares later described Manadeley, a market town on the highland edge, as a gathering place for merchants from lands as distant as Egypt and India.