Bimaal
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The Bimaal or Bimal, are a sub-clan of the major Dir clan family. This clan is widely known for leading a resistance against the colonials in northern Somalia for decades which can be compared to the
Notable elders belonging to the Bimaal clan pictured in Merca
Suldaan Abdirahman Ali Isse, the sultan of Biimal in the 60s
The welcoming of His Majesty the King of Italy in Merca 1935
Bimal elders and the sultan of the clan discussing matters with Italian figures on board of the Marco Polo.
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
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…production for at least the last 200 years. Besides the Biimal revolt against the Ajuran. Later, they had engaged in multiple wars and revolts with the Sultanate of the Geledi. One of the most powerful sultanates to have emerged from southern Somalia called the Geledi Sultanate centered in Afgooye in the late 17th century…
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.