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 | | The most important of these in medieval times was Adal, whose influence at the height of its power and prosperity in the sixteenth century extended from Saylac, the capital, through the fertile valleys of the Jijiga and the Harer plateau to the Abyssinia highlands. |
 | | In the sixteenth century, Saylac became the principal outlet for trade in coffee, gold, ostrich feathers, civet, and Abyssinia slaves bound for the Middle East, China, and India. |
 | | By the middle of the sixteenth century, Saylac and Berbera had become dependencies of the sharifs of Mecca and in the seventeenth century passed to the Ottoman Turks, who exercised authority over them through locally recruited Somali governors. |
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