Ajuran Sultanate

Overview

The Ajuran Sultanate, natively referred to as Ajuuraan, and often simply Ajuran/Ajur, was a Muslim empire in the Horn of Africa that thrived from the late medieval and early modern period. Founded by Somali Sultans its rise to prominence began during the 13th and 14th centuries and by the 15th century, it was Africa's only 'hydraulic empire'. Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuran Empire successfully resisted Oromo invasions from the west and fought against Portuguese incursions from the east.

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Borders & accuracy

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
• SNAPSHOT1600
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Ajuran extent across Somali peninsula

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Mongol Conquests1206–1368
  World-changing · 40M dead
• Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
  World-changing · 20M dead
• Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
  World-changing · 15M dead
• Thirty Years' War1618–48
  World-changing · 8.0M dead
• Timurid Invasions1368–1405
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
  World-changing · 5.0M dead