Two Gems of the Indian Ocean!

[Nilus]

Maldives & Socotra!

Maldives is a small country based on coral islands. It has rather large area as it's islands are distributed in Indian Ocean.

Maldives is strategically located in Indian ocean along the trade routes for which it can be used to observe ships and warships. Also an airbase could be used to attack or reach nearby destination easily.

Maldives is rather small country with half million population and in need of some funds to develop. It's rather easy task for countries with trillion economy boost the funds and impress them. China established some deals with Maldives in trade and infrastructure which includes construction of ports, military bases and land leases.

Socotra

A strategic island on the Indian Ocean and end point of the Red Sea which could be used as a base to control what comes in and out of the Red Sea and Suez Canal of which 800 Billion - 1 trillion dollars every year comes through.

Our past kingdoms should have held down this two islands. I know we once had the Maldives, brought Islam to them, and ruled them for like a century. But how could have Socotra been taken by Yemen? Wallahi we need to get our act together and take it back. It interferes with our maritime borders giving Yemen more than it should have had. If we had Socotra we could easily push deeper into the Indian Ocean and expand our trading influence.

 

[Danakiil]

Cause our ancestors were retarded. I know the qashiins gonna be coming but think niggas. That island is so close to Somalia it's considered apart of the African continent we had trader's traveling to far off lands like Indonesia the Philippines and India but couldn't colonize an island in our own neighborhood LMAO. Absolute dumbasses

 

[hinters]

I heard we introduced the Maldives to Islam.

 

[Nilus]

I heard we introduced the Maldives to Islam.

We did. There was also a ruling dynasty there for like a century or so. I think Ibn battuta or some other scholar wrote about it.

 

[Nilus]

Cause our ancestors were retarded. I know the qashiins gonna be coming but think niggas. That island is so close to Somalia it's considered apart of the African continent we had trader's traveling to far off lands like Indonesia the Philippines and India but couldn't colonize an island in our own neighborhood LMAO. Absolute dumbasses

Socotra wasn’t exotic enough for them

 

[Odious Delirium]

The last monarch (or current) there family is still of the same line basically there of somali orgins but they simply mix in with the populous and lost there somali culture/identity and we couldn't really hold on to these islands because ajuraan lost power and there the ones who took the malidives in the first place and we didn't even have a single main power or a united somalia over the mainland so holding onto things like socator and Maldives and other colonies was impossible since there were various kingdoms in somalia alone vying for power amongst each other and there was no dominate power or unification effort in somalia until the sayid

 

[Dima&Damo]

The smaller islands belongs and are settled by mjs

 

[hawlwadaagsoldier]

Forget Socotra, Southern Arabians were already travelling far south during the ancient times. Ships from Ḥimyar regularly travelled the East African coast, and the state also exerted a large amount of Influence both cultural, religious and political over the trading cities of East Africa whilst the cities of East Africa remained independent. Himyarite generals went as far as invading Rhapta in modern-day Mozambique. The Periplus informs us that Rhapta, was under the firm control of a governor appointed by Arabian king of Musa, taxes were collected, and it was serviced by "merchant craft that they staff mostly with Arab skippers and agents who, through continual intercourse and intermarriage, are familiar with the area and its language. The Periplus explicitly states that Azania (which included Rhapta) was subject to "Charibael", the king of both the Sabaeans and Homerites in the southwest corner of Arabia. Both Sarapion and Nicon in southern Somalia were under their rule too and are part of Azania. Somalis (Barbaria) would have been up north near the Gulf of Aden right around this time. I know Hawiye and his ancestors were around the Hararghe region those time.

 

[Nilus]

Forget Socotra, Southern Arabians were already travelling far south during the ancient times. Ships from Ḥimyar regularly travelled the East African coast, and the state also exerted a large amount of Influence both cultural, religious and political over the trading cities of East Africa whilst the cities of East Africa remained independent. Himyarite generals went as far as invading Rhapta in modern-day Mozambique. The Periplus informs us that Rhapta, was under the firm control of a governor appointed by Arabian king of Musa, taxes were collected, and it was serviced by "merchant craft that they staff mostly with Arab skippers and agents who, through continual intercourse and intermarriage, are familiar with the area and its language. The Periplus explicitly states that Azania (which included Rhapta) was subject to "Charibael", the king of both the Sabaeans and Homerites in the southwest corner of Arabia. Both Sarapion and Nicon in southern Somalia were under their rule too and are part of Azania. Somalis (Barbaria) would have been up north near the Gulf of Aden right around this time. I know Hawiye and his ancestors were around the Hararghe region those time.

Sarapion was not under their rule . Somalis and south Arabians though had deep connections. So much so that we used to write our language with the Sabean script of which Ge’ez is also derived from