The Somali Kings, Sultans and Chieftains before colonization:

[Wadaad]

These were the Somali leaders at the eve of European colonization of Somalia

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8081/8327793067_5679986625.jpg
Ajuuran elder with the first encounter of Italians

Warsangali Sultanate 'ugaas' (warsangali are a Darod clan from SOmaliland):

http://allsanaag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Suldan_Mohamud_AliShire2.jpg

Sultan of Hobyo (where the pirates operate from today):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Sheikh_Ali_Ayanle_Samatar.jpg/300px-Sheikh_Ali_Ayanle_Samatar.jpg

The Ogaden...sultan Bixi Muumin
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Sultan_Bihi_Momeen.jpg

and finally the chieftains of my clan, the Isaaq. Habr Awal chief on the left, and Habr Garxajis on the right...I am Habr Awal, as is Mo Farah the british olympian gold medalist

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Chieftains_of_the_Isaaq_clan.jpg/220px-Chieftains_of_the_Isaaq_clan.jpg

[Wadaad]

close up of my chieftain (Boqor of the Habr Awal) and signatory that entered his lands under the British protectorate in 1887

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Sultan_Abdillahi_Sultan_Deria.jpg

Sultan Abdilaahi Deria

[GreentheViper]

Eh, so we wuz kangz?

[Wadaad]

Eh, so we wuz kangz?


The Habar Awal Sultanate came under the British Protectorate by signing a treaty with the British Empire on 14 July 1884. The Habar Awal clan continued a lucrative trading agreement with the British Empire and thus the British colonials established the capital of the British Somaliland protectorate at Berbera.

yes...we made money off you

also, you paid our sultan to station a garrison in Berbera...You just dont understand, Somalis are different.

[Khamzat]

The sultan of hobyo looks indian lol, they look slightly more Caucasoid than the average somali imo similar to you.

[porkbbq]

How did they end up like this? Serious question.

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/barkhad-abdi-blade-runner.jpg?w=1000

[GreentheViper]

yes...we made money off you

also, you paid our sultan to station a garrison in Berbera...You just dont understand, Somalis are different.

As long as everyone's happy

[Wadaad]

The sultan of hobyo looks indian lol, they look slightly more Caucasoid than the average somali imo similar to you.

They are all ethnic Somali. For example, this guy:

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/barkhad-abdi-blade-runner.jpg?w=1000

is originally from Northern Somalia (puntland today) and back then it was under the Majerteen Sultanate, practically independent within Italian Somalia (and why puntland today is less chaotic than the south):

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRzI90FqU4rNDuCCa3B0lZJ3XWBGbHR4 iOzpmQIx9UkY5CuYLx2

his descendant:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0seuhG_ELS0/mqdefault.jpg

[Wadaad]

Strange that Barkhad Abdi (Pirate actor)...and model Iman, are both Majerteen and probably distant relatives:

https://images.hellogiggles.com/uploads/2017/08/23094142/ima.jpg

[dark-mysterio]

interesting... you should play europa universalis 4 :) (this mostly here when i heard about the somali/east african kingdom)

http://image.noelshack.com/minis/2018/32/5/1533870597-eu4-15.png (http://www.noelshack.com/2018-32-5-1533870597-eu4-15.png)

[Wadaad]

https://zupimages.net/up/18/32/hm5s.png

This map looks from 1500s

(Sudan is still christian "Makouria" for eg)

[dark-mysterio]

cultural and religious map (from the game too) to complete first map

http://image.noelshack.com/minis/2018/32/5/1533874982-eu4-17.png (http://www.noelshack.com/2018-32-5-1533874982-eu4-17.png)
http://image.noelshack.com/minis/2018/32/5/1533874990-eu4-18.png (http://www.noelshack.com/2018-32-5-1533874990-eu4-18.png)

and sorry if there are small image (i don't know ow to make it bigger :noidea:)

[Dick]

They are all ethnic Somali. For example, this guy:

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/barkhad-abdi-blade-runner.jpg?w=1000




E-v13 skull

[Crank]

Cool

[Wadaad]

AND last but not least...the most noble one of them all, and the only one who died without ever surrendering to either European or Ethiopian colonial rule...Ina Abdille Xasan, who the British labelled, the Mad Mullah. The most handsome man in the horn africa at the time, and bravest

http://www.biyokulule.com/Sayid%20Maxamed2.jpg

[Wadaad]

He was the first Muslim human being that the westerners conducted 'aerial bombing campaign'....by the Royal Air force


On 28 January the Camel Corps occupied Jideli and Hassan retreated to his main fort at Taleh. After combined land and air operations, the British took Taleh on 9 February. Hassan's forces suffered great losses and were scattered, his forts were damaged and he escaped with only four of his followers to the Ogaden. Hassan lost some of his greatest generals during the battle, including his right-hand man Haji Sudi and Commander Ibrahim Boghl [1][9]

Subsequent events
Although in the following months Hassan did regain some power in Ogaden he was never a force in British Somaliland again. He died of natural causes in December 1920. Somaliland went on to enjoy 20 years of stability.[1]

The following year in March 1921 at the Cairo Conference, Winston Churchill, who was by then Colonial Secretary, along with the three service chiefs, decided that all British forces in Iraq would be put under control of the RAF. The intention was to apply the model of imperial air control which had worked in Somaliland to a much larger region which was similarly troubled.[5]

[Wadaad]

He also killed British officer Lt Corfield, and composed a famous poem afterwards, called "Koofilow (Oh, Corfield). The poem is vivid for instructing Corfield what story to tell when he arrives in hell:

You have died, Corfield, and are no longer in this world,
a merciless journey was your portion.
When, Hell-destined, you set out for the Other World,
tell them how God tried you.
Say to them: “From that day to this the Dervishes
never ceased their assaults upon us.
the British were broken, the noise of battle engulfed us;
with fervour and faith the Dervishes attacked us.”
Say: “They attacked us at mid-morning.”
Say: “Yesterday in the holy war a bullet from one of their old rifles struck me.
and the bullet struck me in the arm.”
Say: “In fury they fell upon us.”
Report how savagely their swords tore you,
show these past generations in how many places the daggers were plunged.
Say: “Friend,” I called, “have compassion and spare me!””
Say: “As I looked fearfully from side to side my heart
was plucked from its sheath.”
Say: “My eyes stiffened as I watched with horror;
the mercy I implored was not granted.”
Say: “Striking with spear-butts at my mouth they silenced my soft words;
my ears, straining for deliverance, found nothing;
the risk I took, the mistake I made, cost my life.”
Say: “Like the war leaders of old,
I cherished great plans for victory.”
Say: “The schemes the djinns planted in me brought my ruin.”
Say: “When pain racked me everywhere,
men lay sleepless at my shrieks.”
Say: “Great shouts acclaimed the departing of my soul.”
Say: “Beasts of prey have eaten my flesh and torn it asunder.”
Say: “The sound of swallowing the flesh and the fat comes from the hyena.”
Say: “The crows plucked out my veins and tendons.”
Say: “If stubborn denials are to be abandoned, then my clansmen were defeated:
In the last stand of resistance there is always great slaughter.”
Say: “The Dervishes are like the advancing thunderbolts of a storm,
rumbling and roaring.”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Corfield