Dahlak Takımadası: Revizyonlar arasındaki fark

<!-- G.W.B. Huntingford [[Adulis]] yakınlarında "Alalaiou" olarak adlandırılan bir ada grubu belirledi. in the ''[[Periplus of the Erythraean Sea]]'', which were a source of tortoise shell, with the Dahlak archipelago. According to [[Edward Ullendorff]], the Dahlak islanders were amongst the first in East Africa to convert to [[Islam]], and a number of tombstones in [[Kufic]] writing attest to this early connection. In the 7th century an independent Muslim state emerged in the archipleago, but it was subsequently conquered by [[Yemen]], then intermittently by the [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] and subsequent [[petty kingdoms]] of [[Abyssinia]] and about [[1559]] by the [[Ottoman Turks]], who placed the islands under the rule of their [[Pasha]] at [[Suakin]].

In the late 19th century, the islands became part of the [[Italy|Italian]] colony of [[Eritrea]], which was formed in [[1890]]. The Islands were home to little else except a prison operated by the Italian Colonial forces.