http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Dawaro
Founder: ʿAli Madaḥweyne Dir Aji Irir SamāleThe Sultanate of Dawaro was a sultanate founded around the 10th century by the Dawaro clan of the Jarso people
Imagine the oromo hoard ( I.E the borg moving in after somalis ere exhausted by trying to kill of every last Habashi, they had to trick them to survive, then again Jaarso,Akisho,and Gurgura are the leaders of their confederacies within heir "oromo unities"By Somali reckoning, the founder of the clan is Dawaro Jārso ʿAli Madaḥweyne Dir Aji Irir Samāle. After the Oromo migrations, the ʿAli Madaḥweyne Dir were absorbed into the Afran Qallo Barentuma confederation, and today the Jarso are reckoned as Jārsō Daggā Qāllō Barentuma Oromō
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_BaleDawaro was a major power prior to its defeat and subjugation. It was roughly equal in size, population and power to the early Ifat
The Sultanate of Bale was a Somali Muslim sultanate founded in the Bale Mountains and corresponding roughly to the modern Bale Zone. Bale was the largest and most wild of the medieval sultanates of Ethiopia. Like most of the Islamic sultanates of Ethiopia, Bale was conquered by Amde Seyon in the 1320s, and would remain under Abyssinian occupation until Ahmeduddin Badlay's victory over Emperor Yeshaq I in 1429.
of ours, we did run bale of course.. more information 
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