The Ajuuraan State was a Somali Muslim empire that ruled over large parts of East Africa in the Middle Ages. Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow and the Ajuuraan-Portuguese wars.

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  • [[Mogadishu currency|Mogadishan]]
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  • The Ajuuraan State was a Somali Muslim empire that ruled over large parts of East Africa in the Middle Ages. Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow and the Ajuuraan-Portuguese wars. Somali trading routes dating from the ancient and early medieval periods of history were strengthened or re-established, and foreign trade and commerce in the coastal provinces flourished. The Ajuuraans practiced hydraulic engineering and developed new systems for agriculture and taxation, which continued to be used in parts of the Horn of Africa as late as the 19th century. The tyrannical rule of the later Ajuuraan rulers caused multiple rebellions to break out in the empire, and at the end of the 17th century, the Ajuuraan state disintegrated into several successor kingdoms.
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  • Mareeg (initially) then Qaallafo, other administrative centers at Merka and Hobyo
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  • Ajuuraan
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  • Africa
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  • The Ajuuraan State
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  • 17th-century
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  • the 14th century
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  • The Ajuuraan State was a Somali Muslim empire that ruled over large parts of East Africa in the Middle Ages. Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow and the Ajuuraan-Portuguese wars.
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  • Ajuuraan State
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  • Ajuuraan
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