Thread by @xai

Thread on Somali borders and Ancient Somali Lands and claims 🧵

You might've seen this picture alot, it's the text book greater somalia borders however this image is actually a false replication has been been used by insidious Propagandists to deny True Somali Territory

These are true Modern realistic Somali claims

The steady encroachment and forced assimilation, state sponsored ethnic cleansing and decades of international Zionist Backed regimes constantly hounding Somali nation building and Cultural homogeneity with Negative propaganda

With the Poltical claims out pf the way let's take a deep dive into the historical aspect

Historically somalis have always come from a migratory background, it's no suprised their DNA goes as far as the Mediterranean and further into parts of the near east

Starting with the earliest Somali ancestors being the Ancient cushites and the Gash group Puntites from "The Land Of Punt"

Somali ancestry comes from further up north which is why we see large swathes of native west eurasian admixture amongst modern somalis

Later we saw more spread and migration, and past the 3rd century BC a new element was established in the horn

That being the Semitic South Arabian or As we know today "Ethio-Semite"
A foriegn element that's been at the heart of 90% of the conflicts in the horn to this day

After the crisis the cushitic Somali people saw a great cultural and economic revival Peroid during classical Antiquity and were deeply entrenched in global maritime trade and international Commerce

Trade routes were expanded, city states were built and trade flowed

From 500 BC onwards we saw the steady decline of the southern cushitic people mostly due to thr migrating Bantu tribes from Cameroon who had already genocided the pygmy and Khoisan peoples

Southern cushites had been deeply entrenched in Somali trade and their end is unfortunate

Now we come to the second foriegn element in the horn, the Bantu migrant

The agricultural Agrarian Bantu spread its tools across most of the continent like a tsunami only kept at bay by brave somali pastoralists that struck generational fear into the migrants beyond the tana

Their is a website I'll leave below that goes into detail of the garre somali tribes and their tough battles for representation the last several decades

They were hit the hardest by ethnic cleansing and assimilation

Today they are spread Inman regions
beeshadireed.blogspot.com/2018/06/toubou…

Back to the timeline
Post Fall of rome and end of greco-Roman rule somali culture and society began to decline overall

The axumite invaders were gaining strength and thr southern people were displaced and trade fell due to constant international conflicts

This was a bleak era

This all changed with the spread of islam and the rapid militarization of somali states in the north and south

Much of the spread of islam ag the time was taken up by somali sultans in mogadishu and Harar a somali city named after the somali Harla tribe

At this time records show that somalis were still native and settled across much of the modern amhara region

They fought heavily against the Christianization of their land and made up 90% of the ruling class, merchant class and military class

This all changed in the 16th century when one of the greatest somali leaders in history (Imam Ibrahim Ahmed Al Ghazi) or more colloquially known as Imam Ahmed gurey

Won a single battle so decisive it broke the back of the Occupation and Brought a truly crushing blow to the state

Besides the political ramifications the somali borders were for the first time opened up to the greater African continent in the north with the Imam conquering as for as southern sudan

Down in the south in Mogadishu it was alot less militaristic and far more mercantile

The Somali sea and islands went through rapid Settlement

- Trading colonies founded on sofala
- Madagascar conquered and occupied by mogadishu
- Maldives being ruled as a protectorate

Ajuraan was the naval hegemon of its region, it had established trade relations with every major international trading group and personally Sent the first ambassadors of the African continent to build good relations with Chinese

And even going toe to toe with the protugese

Unfortunately all good things have to come to an end

The third foriegn element appeared in the horn

The galla
These roaming bands of pagan assimilated Nilo-Bantu cushites managed break past the Tana and into adal highlands ravaging the tired Abyssian/Adal states

The biggest victims of this were Dir somalis whi made up large portions of the frontier in the highlands and were the first to be impacted

Collapse of adal left a poltical vacuum in the north for Islamic sultanate for a long time

The galla rule from around 17th to 19th century so alot of ethnic violence and tension between Pastoralist

Many oromo integrated and assimilated into the dominant Cushitic admixture of Somalis and its the reason some oromo have increased west eurasian admixture genetically

However 19th century was not a good year to be an oromo that's for certain 🤣🤣

1942 Darood sent the galla packing across the awash(Dir) River and beyond the axmar mountains

Darood expansion saw truly unbelievable amounts of enslavement and assimilation of oromo victims

It got so bad even the British had to get involved it ended up with Somali Pastoralist moving further down south with their slaves and bounty and ravaging the lands if bantus and other oromos beyond the Jubba even reaching as far south as lake tana

Seems like this along with trade and religious issue with the colonial powers brought the British empire at odds with the somali people

The British state at the time financed and encouraged ethiopian annexation of its neighbors

While putting an arms embargo on the native Somali

This along with the steady colonial encroachment and religious subversion of the Somali people had alot of poltical ramifications

The growing Anti-Colonial revolution know as the dervish movement led to The Blessed Sayyid Abdullahi Hassan (AUN) protecting the Deen and culture

The Sayyid May Allah subhanah wa tallah have mercy on him completely routed the expedition sent by the British vassal state of ethiopia which had been under orders to capture Him

The Sayyid slew thousands of Ethiopian soldeirs that day leaving ogaden free of Ethiopian control

Somalis being the warrior race they were and the grudges they held with the Ethiopian state joined the war for some sweet revenge

Thousands of somali askari were under the italian banner during the Abyssinian invasion

Fought alongside eritreans against ethiopia

Eventually post ww2 with thr British signing away the Haud reserve region, ogaden, and handing back falsely gained territory to the Ethiopian state

Ethiopia was left with a large somali population that did not want to exist in its territory

This is what the demographic map looked like before 1970s

You can see the previous decades of invasion and expanion by rival ethnic groups of Amhara, afar and oromo into somali regions beyond the ahmar mountains

Even Addis Ababa is just a colonial city built by settlers

So with that said please don't take this map seriously it was drawn post 1990s under the western backed organizations that financed the 1993 and 2006 invasion of somalia

Both which failed terribly

Hope you all enjoyed the this thread 👍👍

Ramadan Mubarak 🤲🤲☪️☪️✅️✅️✅️

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