Ethnic groups in Djibouti

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Afar people, Ethnic Somali people, List of Somalis, Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, Sharif Ahmed, Iman, Afar Region, Mohamoud Ali Shire, Hassan Mead, Muhamed Hussein Abdallah, Rageh Omaar, Afar language, Somali diaspora, Sultanate of Dewe, Fatima Jibrell, Mohammed Hussein Ali, Abdi Kusow, Mustafa Mohamed Moalim, Dobe'a, Guled Casowe, Gerad Ali Dable, Aar Maanta, Somali Canadians, Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Ramzi Mohammed, Mohammed Haji-Ali Shirwa, Bashir Yussuf, Olol Diinle, Yusuf Ali Kenadid, Mohamoud Mohamed Guled, Osman Yusuf Kenadid, Siddiqis in the Horn of Africa, Qallu, Abdulkadir Ahmed Said, Xamar-Gale, Yaasiin Cismaan Keenadiid, Aussa Sultanate, Abdulahi Sheik Ismael Fara-Tag, Asli Hassan Abade, Shaykh Sufi, Garaad Jaamac Garaad cali, Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur, Shirwa Ahmed, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Mudaito dynasty, Ahmed Yusuf, Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, Sa'id of Mogadishu, Arawelo, Ali Sheikh Ahmed, Irir Samaale, Muktar Hussein Afrah, Ali Maow Maalin, Yusuf Mahamud Ibrahim, Sheik Abdurrahman Aamir'Dhuubow', Osman Ahmed, Ibrahim Adeer, Sheik Yarrow Maatay, Sheik Yarrow Maaytey, Ahmed Maxamed Xasan, Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare, Sultan Hurre, Bileh, Omar Muhammad Farah, Omar Möallim Nur, Akil Dhahar, Muhammad ibn Aqil, Omar Haji Massale. Excerpt: Somalis (Somali: , Arabic: ¿) 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. Ethnic Somalis number around 15-17 million and are principally concentrated in Somalia (more than 9 million), Ethiopia (4.6 million), Yemen (a little under 1 million), northeastern Kenya (900,000), Djibouti (350,000), and an unknown but large number live in parts of the Middle East, North America and Europe. Ahmed Gurey defeated several Ethiopian emperors and embarked on a conquest which brought three-quarters of Ethiopia under the power of the Muslim Sultanate of Adal. In antiquity, the ancestors of the Somali people were an important link in the Horn of Africa connecting the region's commerce with the rest of the ancient world. Somali sailors and merchants were the main suppliers of frankincense, myrrh and spices, items which were considered valuable luxuries by the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Mycenaeans and Babylonians. According to most scholars, the ancient Land of Punt and its inhabitants formed part of the ethnogenesis of the Somali people. The ancient Puntites were a nation of people that had close relations with Pharaonic Egypt during the times of Pharaoh Sahure and Queen Hatshepsut. The pyramidal structures, temples and ancient houses of dressed stone littered around Somalia are said to date from this period. In the classical era, several ancient city-states such as Opone, Mosyllon and Malao that competed with the Sabaeans, Parthians and Axumites for the wealthy Indo-Greco-Roman trade also flourished in Somalia. The Citadel of Gondershe, Somalia was an important city in the medieval Ajuuraan Empire.The birth of Islam on the opposite side of Somalia's Red Sea coast meant that Somali merchants, sailors and expatriates living in the Arabian Peninsula gradually came under the influence of the new religion