Traditional Leader of Dhulbahante

Garaad Jaamac garaad Cali

Garaad Jaamac Garaad Cali is the most senior Garaad of Dhulbahante Garaads.[[1]].Garaad Jaamac is the 19th Garaad of Dhulbahante Sultanate.[[2]].In the mid-nineteenth century were the dhulbahante the most powerful clans, following the collapse of the kingdomboqor Wiilwaal orSultanas de Bartire [1] in the middle of the nineteenth century (died Wiilwaal1864), And the victory over Clanogadeni (ogaadeen) In a bloody battle after a few hills Ogaadeen named Kabar.That left the dhulbahante as lords of the north of Somalia between the northern part ofSanaag and southernMudugAnd Kiridh (to the west) to ValleyNugaal to the east (on the border were majertin ormajeerteen.) At the beginning of the nineteenth century Sultan Dhulbahante was governed by hereditàriament "garaaship" line of kings Baharasame, but due to population increase, before the arrival of British explorer Speke had divided a part of the kingdom under the garaaship "Cali Xarama (Maxamuud Ugaadhyah).

An explorer sent by the Royal Geographic Society, the DeputyCharles J. CruttendenHe put on the fight between two factions of the dhulbahante1848. Of the country was visited dhulbahante1855 by John Speke British who landed inLas Khoray, Wanting to cross the territory to find aRichard Burton aHarar. Speke left some stories about this guild, which was defined as a wild and terrible. A Speke had to pass a levy for the country, and as a show of force will be made a show of four thousand armed horsemen. Finally Speke crossed by another route.

A poem that tells of Cali Naaleeye at any time of Sayyid Qamax, responding to an attack of majeerteen the dhulbahante ravaged the lands of their enemies and reached l 'Indian OceanJust shortly after they had managed to loot the capital of the separatist Maxamuud kingdom, which was the city of Noobs and Iskushuban between Beyla. That was about half of the nineteenth century but it is unclear whether the poem was before or after the visit of Speke.

Between1884 and1893 Harold Swayne visited seventeen times the land and wrote about dhulbahante and, as already mentioned above the other travelers, then the clan posseeia many horses (one man could have 150 horses, and were especially numerous in Nugaal) and that given the strategic advantage over other clans, and allowed them to make incursions over long distances up to shops and BullaxaarBerbera and intercept between the caravans and MudugOgaden. Swayne visited Caynaba that belonged to the dynasty Ararsame of Garaad Axmed, where many of the caravans Ararsame not dare to go to Berbera by the riders of Garaad Maxamuud; other indications on the state of war between the two groups reflected in the his works including the pointing that Ararsame and Barkad opposed Maxamuud also visited Ogaden Kabr (Kabar Ogaadeen), instead of the great victory of dhulbahante on ogadenis.

The dhulbahante or dalbahante generally fought alongside during the Mad Mullah of the movement of daraawiish1889 to1920 and its population was halved.