Isaaq Sultanate
Isaaq Sultanate | |||||||||||||
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| 1749–1884 | |||||||||||||
A banner used by the Adal Sultanate and later the Isaaq on key religious shrines | |||||||||||||
Extent of the Isaaq clan-family at the end of the 19th century | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Toon (first) Hargeisa (last) | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||||||
• ~1700s | Abdi Isse (Traditional Chief) | ||||||||||||
• 1750–1808 (first Sultan) | Guled Abdi | ||||||||||||
• 1870–1884 (last) | Deria Hassan | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1749 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1884 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Ethiopia Somaliland | ||||||||||||
The Isaaq Sultanate (Somali: Saldanadda Isaaq, Wadaad: سَلْدَنَدْدَ إساقْ, Arabic: السلطنة الإسحاقية) was a Muslim sultanate that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. The kingdom spanned the territories of the Isaaq clan in modern-day Somaliland and Ethiopia. It was governed by the Rer Guled Eidagale branch of the Garhajis clan and is the pre-colonial predecessor to the Republic of Somaliland.