Ibrahim Adeer (, ) was a Somali ruler. He founded the

Sultanate of the Geledi The Sultanate of the Geledi (, ) also known as the Gobroon dynasty,Somali Sultanate: The Geledi City-state Over 150 Years - Virginia Luling (2002) Page 229 was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during the late-17th century ...

. He subsequently established the Geledi sultanate's ruling house, the Gobroon dynasty, after having to successfully rebel and expel the

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and ruled large parts of

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In the late 17th century, Adeer, who was an Ajuran general at the time, gathered 12,000 members of the Geledi tribe, under the leadership of Ibrahim Adeer successfully pushed back the imperial Ajuran army out of Afgooye. He had united all Maay speaking people, Digil & Mirifle clans using both military and diplomatic means. Sultan Ibrahim repeatedly defeated the Ajuran army in numerous battles; marched through what is now known

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and Bay regions where he defeated the Madanle clan part of the imperial Ajuran confederacy, and Afgooye where he defeated the Silcis Dynasty also part of the imperial Ajuran confederacy. He marched towards Bardheere and

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region where he expelled the

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clan and established a

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in Dolow. His final conquest when he marched south of Jubba valley reaching what is now known as Kismayo and quickly expelling the Ajuran imperial armies and in the process, he had conquered half the entirety of the Ajuran Empire.

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

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. His son, Mahamud Ibrahim, would later succeed him atop the throne.

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*{{cite book , last = Luling , first = Virginia , author-link = , title = Somali Sultanate: the Geledi city-state over 150 years , publisher = Transaction Publishers , year = 2002 , location = , pages = , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IqgEAAAACAAJ , doi = , id = , isbn = 0-7658-0914-1 17th-century Somali people 18th-century Somali people Gobroon dynasty Somalian religious leaders Somalian Muslims Ajuran Sultanate 17th-century monarchs in Africa 18th-century monarchs in Africa 18th-century deaths Year of birth unknown

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