Contrary to popular belief, majority of Arabs in Zeila were exiled from the peninsula to be imprisoned. A minority of skilled masons and musketeers were imported from hadhramaut, their descendants mixed with the local Somali populace thus creating the saylacaawi people. Zeila had 3 main inhabitants, Somalis, saylacaawis, and Arabs
Most Arabs in Zeila were prisoners
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It pretty much died since the 17th century and onwards, and Djibouti finished it off.
?? Ottoman ever ruled Somalia?
There was a short revival in the 19th century but youre correct the establishment of Djibouti killed it
It was nominal for a short period of time. whoever the emir was were to pay tribute to the sharif of mocha on behalf of the ottomans
It was nominal.
Ottomans, from what I recall, supported the local Somali governments; they were actively fighting the Portuguese in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Sea to the Zanj coast.
the fact that we need to even state such questions in the first place shows you we are defeated people
They did an awful job at it btw. In 1516 the portugese burned zeila to the ground, the following year they burned berbera
East Africa
The Portuguese appear to have been the first European visitors to encounter East Africa, with the arrival of a lone traveller, Pero da Covilham, in c.1491. Covilham left no account of his experiences, so Vasco da Gama had little idea of what to expect when he led his first voyage to the region...
These are a few resources you can use, I mainly source books from https://archive.org/ .
