Hargaya

Hargaya (Harari: ሀርጋየ Härgayä) was a historical Muslim state in present-day eastern Ethiopia.

[1][2] It was located east of the Awash River on the Harar plateau in Adal alongside Gidaya and Hubat states.

[3][4][5] It neighbored other polities in the medieval era including Ifat, Fedis, Mora, Biqulzar and Kwelgora.

[7][8] In the fourteenth century Hargaya elected Imam Salih to battle the forces of Abyssinian emperor Amda Seyon I.

[9] According to the fifteenth century emperor of Ethiopia's Baeda Maryam I chronicle, Hargaya's ruler took the title Garad.