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How was Abyssinia able to resist total conquest by the Ottoman empire?
Op probably knows this but something about Muhammad and his companions taking refuge under the Ethiopian Church and thereafter declaring them exempt from attacks.
https://youtu.be/d3c6p5awTIg
>>565256
Didn't stop the Ottomans from making several invasions against it during the 15th-18th centuries.
>>565319
That's Turks for you.
>>565319
Welp the warranty was good while it lasted.
>>565319
Ottoman conquest motives was 1/4ths Islamic, 3/4ths Turkic instinct of I MUST CONQUER LANDS.
>>564262
Living in highlands helps.
>>564262
It was too irrelevant to warrant any serious invasions.
>>564262
They did take the port town of Massawa which was met with resistance.
>>565256
Should've killed the false prophet.
>>564262
Literally Portugal. An expedition of 400 Portuguese musketeers arrived, the expedition was caught and slaughtered by the Ottomans, then the Ethiopian emperor rallied them under his command (Even waiting days before his counter-offensive, as he considered 50 musketeers a greater reinforcement than a thousand native warriors) and decisively defeated the Ottoman/Somalis.
Ottomans struck back not too much longer though and took their coast away, resuming the centuries-old isolation they already had endured
