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Taariikhda Puntland | Showcasing history relevant to Puntland state | 𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒐𐒖𐒒𐒆 𐒊𐒖𐒎𐒖𐒒 | ولاية بونت لاند

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Majeerteen traders travelling from Bombay to Aden on a steamer ship read an early Somali translation of "one thousand and one Arabian nights" by Major J.S King [1887]

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Abdulkadir Hashi, The First Secretary of the Somali Embassy to the United Kingdom and his administrative staff in London.[1985]

Today, he became the Somali ambassador to the United Kingdom.

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A boat ride across Raas Casayr[1950s]

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Sultan Osman Mahmud II of Majeerteeniya with his brother, Yusuf Mahmud and son, Musa Osman[1927]

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Mohamed Awale Liban gives a speech to the SYL[1954]

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Sultan Mohamed Mahmud of the Warsangeli attacks and burns down Waqderiya after a section of the Warsangeli try to become independent from him[1883]

The Sultan also blockaded any ships from entering Waqdariya during this time.

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Sultan Osman Mahamud II of Majeerteeniya[1927]

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Lieutenant Alfred Lewis, a British officer who served with the British Somaliland Camel Corps, talks about his war with the Majeerteen in Sanaag and the demolition of their fort in 1925[Recorded in 1979]

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Na'ib Ali Farah of the Hobyo Sultanate[1930s]

Na'ib Ali Farah was born into the Mahmud Saleh[Arab Saleh tribe] and was the brother in law of Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid

"Ali Farah commanded 728 Askar around Hobyo"

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Harti elders of Kismayo in the city council[1950s]

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Majeerteen nomads watering their horses in the Ceel Xamuur wells, Eastern Mudug[1920s]

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Final stand of a Majeerteen rebel in Qoraxey against an Italian ambush[1926]

"The Migiurtini have the proud saying:

Only women bring well-being; men must give pain,"

🧾- La Tribuna Illustrata

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Majeerteen War Song[1915]

"He who seeks the enemy finds the enemy!

We hope to kill you all

And to return to our country victorious!

To hell, to hell, infidels!

Shame on us if we don't kill you!

We hope to return to our country

And find Sambuks brought by the monsoon

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Ina Caamir [Warsangeli mother of Kenadiid's father, Cali Ardaabasle]~1848

1. Golweyn lagu goosey oo gacal walaal la wad,
2. Anse llaah bay galladay o golxaale yimid

1. Golweyn was a disaster, and dear brothers have fallen,
2. But God favored me and 'Golxaale[Cali] returned safe

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Sultan Osman Mahmud II of Majeerteeniya[1910]

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Bargal Majeerteen elders[1928]

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The Abgaal of Harardheere urge their Sultan, Yusuf Ali of the Hobyo Sultanate to intervene in their conflict with the Hawadle in the Middle Shabelle[1917]

A Hawadle poet however implores Sultan Yusuf Ali to not intervene in pastoral conflict and calls for peace in a poem:

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Majeerteen woman making a traditional Somali breakfast for her family in the Caluula countryside[1950s]

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The Majeerteen and their allies were simultaneously invading Berbera in Northern Somalia and Mungiyo[between Merka and Baraawe] in Southern Somalia in 1846/1847

This is according to eye witness and sometimes secondhand accounts by Burton, Guillain and the British colonial office

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General Mohamad Said Hirsi Morgan, Somalia's former Minister of Defense, smokes a pipe during peace negotiations in Nairobi.[1994]