Ibrahim Adeer ( so, Ibraahin Adeer, ar, ابراهيم أدير) was a

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ruler. He founded the Sultanate of the Geledi. He subsequently established the Geledi sultanate's ruling house, the Gobroon dynasty, after having to successfully rebel and expel the Ajuran Sultanate and ruled large parts of

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In the late 17th century, Adeer, who was an Ajuran general at the time, gathered 12,000 members of the Geledi tribe, under the leadership of Ibrahim Adeer successfully pushed back the

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Ajuran army out of Afgooye. He had united all Maay speaking people,

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& Mirifle clans using both military and diplomatic means. Sultan Ibrahim repeatedly defeated the Ajuran army in numerous battles; marched through what is now known Bakool and

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regions where he defeated the Madanle clan part of the imperial Ajuran confederacy, and Afgooye where he defeated the Silcis Dynasty also part of the imperial Ajuran confederacy. He marched towards

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and Luuq in

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region where he expelled the Ajuran clan and established a

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. His final conquest when he marched south of Jubba valley reaching what is now known as

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and quickly expelling the Ajuran imperial armies and in the process, he had conquered half the entirety of the Ajuran Empire.

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Ibrahim, who was the son of Adeer Gobroon, thus became the first sultan of the new

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. His son,

Mahamud Ibrahim Mahamud Ibrahim Adeer ( so, Maxamuud Ibrahiim Adeer, ar, محمود ابراهيم) sometimes referred to as '' Aw Maxamuud'' was a Somali ruler. He was the second Sultan of the Sultanate of the Geledi. He defeated early challengers to the new S ...

, would later succeed him atop the throne.

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*{{cite book , last = Luling , first = Virginia , author-link = , title = Somali Sultanate: the Geledi city-state over 150 years , publisher = Transaction Publishers , year = 2002 , location = , pages = , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IqgEAAAACAAJ , doi = , id = , isbn = 0-7658-0914-1 17th-century Somalian people 18th-century Somalian people Gobroon dynasty Somali sultans Somalian religious leaders Somalian Muslims Ajuran Sultanate 17th-century monarchs in Africa 18th-century monarchs in Africa 18th-century deaths African royalty African rulers Year of birth unknown History of Somalia History of Africa African monarchs

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