The Sultanate of Bale was a Somali Muslim Sultanate founded in the Bale Mountains of the southern Ethiopian Highlands and Horn of Africa. It corresponds roughly to the modern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region in Ethiopia.[1]
Sultanate of Bale | |||||||
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| 13th cenutury–1320s | |||||||
| Status | Sovereign state | ||||||
| Common languages | Sidama, Somali | ||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||
| Government | Sultanate | ||||||
| Sultan | |||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||
• Established | 13th cenutury | ||||||
• Conquered by Amde Seyon of Abyssinia | 1320s | ||||||
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| Today part of | Bale Zone, South-Eastern Ethiopia | ||||||
- ^ Østebø, Terje (October 2020). Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9781108839686.