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Battle of Hirna
| Battle of Hirna | |||||||
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| Part of Menelik's Expansions | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Shewa | Emirate of Harar | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Dejazmach Walda Gabriel | Bakri Salih | ||||||
The Battle of Hirna was an engagement fought in October 1886 between the Abyssinian army of Shewa under Dejazmach Walda Gabriel and officer Bakri Salih of the Emirate of Harar.[1] The Shewan forces were routed.[2][3]
- ^ Ahmed, Wehib. History of Harar and Hararis (PDF). p. 93.
- ^ Asnake, Gossa. A History of Hirna Town from Its Foundation Up to 1991. Addis Ababa University. pp. 13–14.
- ^ Cerulli, Enrico. Folk-literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia. Peabody Museum of Harvard university.
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