Geledi

The Geledi Sultanate was a Somali kingdom centered on Afgooye, between the Jubba and Shabelle rivers. In the late seventeenth century Ibrahim Adeer overthrew the Silcis rulers and founded the Gobroon dynasty as the Ajuran Sultanate declined.

Yusuf Mahamud Ibrahim became sultan in 1798 and governed a confederacy through local chiefs and religious leaders. His capital Afgooye stood at the meeting point of southern Somali caravan routes, with workshops producing textiles, pottery and jewelry.