With Islamic attacks up to 1531 threatening Christian Ethiopia, an appeal from the Emperor to the Portuguese brought support to defeat the Adal Sultanate in the Ethiopian–Adal War.
Cos ataques islámicos de 1531 ameazando a Etiopía, o emperador buscou a axuda dos portugueses para derrotar ao Sultanato de Adel na Guerra Adel-Etíope.