Ibrahim Adeer was a Somali

Somali people

Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...

 ruler, and the founder of the Gobroon Dynasty

Gobroon Dynasty

The Gobroon dynasty or Geledi sultanate was a Somali royal house that ruled parts of East Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was established by the Ajuuraan soldier Ibrahim Adeer, who had defeated various vassals of the Ajuuraan Empire and established the House of Gobroon...

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Biography

In the late 17th century, Adeer, who was a soldier at the time, successfully pushed back the imperial

Empire

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium . Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....

 Ajuuraan army out of Afgooye

Afgooye

-Location:It is situated about 25 kilometres west of Mogadishu, the nation's capital. The Shabelle River passes through the middle of the town.-History:Afgooye was part of Italian Somaliland during the early part of the 20th century...

. He subsequently established the Gobroon Dynasty, after having first defeated the Ajuuraan

Ajuuraan State

The Ajuuraan state or Ajuuraan sultanate was a Somali Muslim empire that ruled over large parts of East Africa in the Middle Ages. Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan Empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the...

 vassal

Vassal

A vassal or feudatory is a person who has entered into a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. The obligations often included military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain privileges, usually including the grant of land held...

 state, the Silci Kingdom.

Sultan

Sultan

Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

 Yusuf, who was the son of Adeer Gobroon, thus became the first sultan of the new dynasty

Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers considered members of the same family. Historians traditionally consider many sovereign states' history within a framework of successive dynasties, e.g., China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire...

. His son, Mahamud Ibrahim

Mahamud Ibrahim

Mahamud Ibrahim was a Somali ruler, and the second Sultan of the Gobroon Dynasty.-Biography:Sultan Ibrahim succeeded his father, Ibrahim Adeer, as Sultan of the Gobroon Dynasty. He, in turn, would eventually bequeathe the throne to his own son, Yusuf Mahamud Ibrahim....

, would later succeed him atop the throne.