Yet Ibn Battuta referred to the land between Zeila and Mogadishu as ‘their country’. Ibn Majid in his map also stretched the land of Somalis from Berbera to Barawa, a clearly defined territory, and almost perfectly accurate to today’s borders. An entity like Adal also doesn’t levy soldiers from an unrelated region unless there was some kind of a political relationship / kinship between the two entities, which is what happened between Mogadishu and Adal. The House of Gareen that ruled the South also traced its origins to Berbera in the North.
We are suffering a lack of research in terms of historical relationships between Somali entities but the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There are many provinces of Adal mentioned by 16th century individuals like Olfert Dapper that haven’t been identified yet and which could very well correspond to modern Somali regions not traditionally included in the borders of Adal.
I disagree, because there was a specific element that United the entire Somali peninsula and Nation, which was the nomads, and depending on the season, a nomad could become an Adalite or a Mogadishan.
This explains the genetic overlap, the Somali lingua franca, the same religion with the same madhab, the commonality in saints, the Xeer legal system, and the mass adoption of the term Somali, coast to coast etc, few countries have such a strong foundation as a Nation, unfortunately for us the clan-system has a way of erasing all of those historic commonalities despite the Samaale patriarch.
To be honest, I really don’t have the energy to get into a back and forth, and just wanted to add my two cents, so if you are still convinced that there was no unified Somali Nation historically, then you can have the last word.