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Mogadishu wasn't founded by middle eastern people. Mogadishu seats on top of an older city called Sarapion, the Greeks mentioned and established that Somalis were already trading there between 200 BC - 100 AD. The city medieval day establishment around 1000AD and Ajuran capture the city 300 years after that. The Arab migration didn't happen until 300 years after that. The city's old history is Somali thank the Greeks and Ibn Battuta's writings.I have not read up on the Mogadishu Sultanate for a while so what I say might be prone to error. My understanding is that Mogadishu fell under the influence of the Ajuran Sultanate but was founded by Middle Eastern immigrants, just like other trading posts along the east african coast all the way to Mozambique. The Ajuran Sultanate was allied to the Arabs that partially dominated the eastern seaboard of Africa but maintained its independence. If one was to take into account the fact that the Omanis were a naval power in the Late Middle Ages and thereafter, Somali sultanates such as the Ajuran and those that followed cannot be thought of as their equal.