ABSTRACT
In the 1550s Gelawdewos was constantly preoccupied in fighting the Galla in the southeastern peripheries of his kingdom and the Muslims of the Harar-Chercher plateau.1 The monarch's tactics concerning the Galla were relatively successful in the short run, and their eruptions were, on the whole, curbed by new Chewa garrisons supported by the royal army. His strategy concerning Adal, however, completely misfired.
