Ajuran Sultanate
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The Ajuran Sultanate, natively referred to as Ajuuraan, and often simply Ajuran/Ajur, was a Muslim empire in the Horn of Africa that thrived from the late medieval and early modern period. Founded by
The Ottomans regularly aided the Ajurans in their struggles with the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean.
During the Battle of Barawa, Tristão da Cunha was wounded and requested to be knighted by Albuquerque.
The tomb of Sheikh Hussein
The city of Merca was a prominent administrative center of the Ajurans
Sultanate of the Geledi
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The Sultanate of the Geledi also known as the Gobroon dynasty, was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during the late-17th century to the early 20th century. The Sultanate was gov
View of the Bardera Citadel in the mid 1800s by Baron Karl Klaus von der Decken.
Charles Guillain's caravan expedition in 1848, meeting members of the Geledi clan, departing from Mogadishu.
Sultan Osman Ahmed (mounted) and his mamluk soldiers
Barawa was the chief port and Islamic center for the Geledi Sultanate.