Adlan I (reigned 1606 - 1611/12) was a ruler of the
Kingdom of Sennar. He was the son of Ayat, although
James Bruce
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first Euro ...
writes he was the son of
Unsa I and the brother of
Abd al-Qadir, whom he deposed and exiled from Sennar. Adlan was, in turn, deposed by his nephew
Badi.
During his reign, Sennar was at peace with its neighbor,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Er ...
. The Ethiopian ''Royal Chronicles'' mention that Adlan sent a team of fine horses to Emperor
Susenyos
Susenyos I ( gez, ሱስንዮስ ; circa 1571-1575 – 17 September 1632), also known as Susenyos the Catholic, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1606 to 1632, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne names were Seltan Sagad and Malak Sagad ...
as gifts.
H. Weld Blundell
Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell (1852 – 5 February 1935) was an English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman. He shortened his surname from Weld Blundell to Weld, in 1924.
Life to 1922
He was educated at Stonyhurst ...
, ''The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840'' (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 530.
References
Rulers of Sennar
17th-century African people
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