Rahayta

Rahayta is an Afar coastal settlement near the southern end of the Red Sea, its name associated with water springing from the ground. The salt plains of Warraysa Dagad lie to its south. In the early sixteenth century Gibdi Hamad divided the territory of the Tagira sultanate, creating a separate sultanate at Rahayta. Early in the eighteenth century its ruling branches, Dinitte and Burhanto, established an alternating succession to end disputes within the family.