Dakkar

Dakkar lay southeast of Harar and served as a royal centre of the Adal sultanate. From this inland seat, the Walashma dynasty ruled a Muslim polity linked to the port of Zeila and the trade routes of the Horn of Africa. Its position on the Harar plateau placed it close to the contested frontier with the Christian Ethiopian kingdom. After the defeat of the earlier sultanate of Ifat, the dynasty established a new centre at Dakkar in the fifteenth century. In 1520 Sultan Abu Bakr moved the seat of government to Harar. That transfer preceded the campaigns of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, whose armies fought across the Ethiopian highlands in the following decades.

The later city of Jijiga lies here.