Ancient Somali history explained

[James Dahl]

Long ago, the ancestors of Oromos, Afars and Somalis lived in a large kingdom known as Boonta. Boonta was a rich kingdom that was a major exporter of African Blackwood, Myrrh and Frankincense. Their chief cities were Aftal and several others today known only by their greek transliterations of Malao, Mosyllon, Aromata and Opone. Egypt referred to this land as Pwenet (as close as you can get to Boontu in ancient Egyptian pronounciation), and it is from the Egyptian name that we know this land today, as Punt. Romans knew Boontu after the market town of Aftal, and called the people the Avalitae. Greeks referred to them as the Other Berbers.

The Boontu kingdom in the 4th century united with the kingdom of Kasu (which has gone down in history as Meroe or Kush) dynastically, and the Kasu-Boontu kingdom conquered the Agaw (descendants of Agaw, who had been Viceroy of Kush under the Egyptians) and the Gaze kingdom of Dam't (the descendants of the Qahtani Arab immigrants who had begun to immigrate in 2,500 BCE). The conquerer, Gadaaraa (GDRT, Gadaaraa means "From the Law" in Oromo) erected an enormous victory stelae in Adulis boasting of his conquests.

Greek and Roman writers referred to Kasu as Aethiopia, after the Greek name for the founder of the Kasu nation. After Gadaaraa, Aethiopia included Axum as well as Meroe, and no mention of Punt, the Avalitae or the Other Berbers can be found.

Historians have often been confused as to how Dam't could conquer itself and establish Axum, and this has led to many silly theories.

His descendant Caadhaana (Ezana in Ge'ez) converted to Christianity and conquered most of Yemen, and defended Kasu against the invading Nuba (nowadays confused with him invading Kasu). Kasu would be abandoned and the Kasu would move south. The great Kasu cities would dissapear beneath the sands of Sudan until they were discovered centuries later.

Adulis was close to Egypt and Yemen, and merchants could just move their goods overland to there, so the red sea ports of Boontu all died out. As Islam spread in Africa however, the old site of Aftal found a new life as way station and port for Hajjis on their way to Makkah, as the town of Zeila.

In the 9th century, the Axum empire fell apart due to religious and ethnic differences, as the royal family converted to Islam. The Christian Agaw, Amhara and Tigray split away from the empire, and Emperor (Dil) Nacood moved to Shoa. The Coptic Church decided to crown the strongest Christian secessionists, the Zagwe, as Emperor. The Zagwe declined however and the Tigray grew to be the strongest state and conquered the Zagwe. The Coptic Church made up some rubbish about the Tigray conquerers being secret descendants of Dil Nacood and that they are Solomonids. This also involved doing away with the legitimate Solomonids.

The newly-minted Habesh empire allied with the Sultan of Zeila (a descendant of Yusuf aw-Barkadle) and destroyed Shoa, with most of the conquests going to Zeila, who moved his capital into the highlands and renamed his sultanate to Ifat.

The Shewans were forced out of the highlands and moved south and east into the lowlands. Today their descendants are the Somali and Oromo.

[djibsomali]

lullaby story,

[dawwa9]

My ancestor was a midgaan from Yemen that stole the prophet's sandal

[The_Emperior5]

thats why he named his son Kablaxad

[dawwa9]

Entire Quraysh gangsters were after him

[AbdiWahab252]

thats why he named his son Kablaxad

[James Dahl]

The exiles of Shoa were of two types. One type were not Muslims, and they retained their old religion and legal system built by Emperor Gadaara, Gadaa. These peoples would come to be referred to as Galla. The second type were Muslims, and were led primarily by religious leaders. These were two factions of essentially the same nation, the descendants of Oromo, with a smattering of religious leaders from Arabian families amongst the Muslims.

Both groups picked essentially the same target to invade in order to secure a new kingdom, the Kilwa Empire, and then established kingdoms. The Galla Oromo subjugated many Muslim Oromo groups, and the Muslim Oromo subjugated many Galla Oromo groups, and both subjugated the Bantu and Persian inhabitants of the Kilwa Empire.

Initially, the Galla Oromo had the upper hand, but then the Ajuran and Muzaffar kings of Mogadishu turned the tables in the 15th century and conquered vast numbers of Galla Oromo from the Shabelle to the Juba. Darood clans invaded vast territories of Galla Oromo and crossed the Juba in the 18th century to attack Bantu and Galla Oromo territories right up to the Tana river.

[James Dahl]

thats why he named his son Kablaxad

You mean Kablalax? That's his nickname, his real name is Muhammad.

[gurey25]

Interesting theory James this one is more realistic then the Libyan theory.

You completley ignored a signifigant group..
The semetic speaking Lowlanders the ancesters of the gurage and silti and Adari.
They were probably the first to migrate south from Axum and were probably muslim refugees from axum
or lost millitary outposts that converted to islam.

Your northern origin of the cushites is interetsing though,
i believe you are onto somthing.

[Voltage]

Somebady please cyber slap Gurey. The most pea-brained creature on Somalinet.

[gurey25]

Somebady please cyber slap Gurey. The most pea-brained creature on Somalinet.

If you have something to contribute say it, otherwise SHUT THE F*ck UP.