Ajuuraan were huge brother and lasted from 1200s to 1600s. Literally the same family all these years unlike Ifat-Adal that had more then one family rule over it
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Ajuran flag flying over Mogadishu in 1576 which shows Mogadishu as last major town the South East Coast of Africa - a symbol of its influence ver the Shungwaya/Pate/Azania/Swahili which included Minting indigenous Somali coins called Mogadishan coin
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They had built up many satellite states across the geopolitical globe such as the Sultanate of Bale in Ethiopia led by Sheikh Hussein Baliyalle born to a Hawiye family from Merca and educated in Saudi Arabia. And Governorates of Maldives ruled by Abdulaziz al Maqdishi, Madagascsar and Pate as well as trade companies in Sofala (Mozambique).
In a British paper in 1948, we find several references of Ajuuraan control of the interior, particularly the 7 wells of the eastern Ogaden (including Warder, Walwal, Gerlogubi) and the Nogal (Nugaal).
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The remnants of the Ajuuraan state that survived till the colonial era include the Olol Dinle Sultanate of Qalaafe and Baareey. There is also the Sultanate or Qadiriyah Sheikhdom of Bardera led by Abdi Osman, which had been one of the early Italian protectorate signitaries.