Discussion: Did Somali/Oromo identity did not exist prior to 1500s?

[aden1812]

I am Hawiye/Degodia, but i am really starting to think that the prior to the Somali–Portuguese conflicts of 1507 and Ahmad Gurre, i dont think the identities really existed, even when ibn batattu visited both ports in somalia, he never refered to them as Somalis in 1300s.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

IIRC the Region known as the Somali Peninsula was recognized and called Somali many many many many centuries ago

But as for Identity not sure.

 

[Guure⁸]

He referred them as barbar(former name for somalis) inhabited cities

 

[Midas]

No they very much did. The oromos only began to expand into their current terriotry in the 1500s and in those first few centuries they were pagans.

Current somali clans have essentially not changed their territories in the last 500 years. The somali identity is very clearly preislamic its just that are culutral similarities with the arabian penisula hides how little our culutrre has changed even with the conversion to islam