The Seven Sub-sultanates in Eastern Shoa

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Medieval Arab geographers, principally Shihab al‑Din al‑Umari and al‑Maqrizi, together with Solomonic royal chronicles and modern historians such as Taddesse Tamrat, Ulrich Braukämper and Enrico Cerulli, form the documentary backbone for the “seven sultanates” concept. Ifat (Awfat) is presented as the Walashma dynastic seat that consolidated post‑…