Warsangali

Warsangali was a Somali Muslim polity on the Maakhir coast beneath the Cal-Madow mountains. In 1337 competing garaads, or lords, ruled the coast within the Ifat Sultanate’s tributary sphere.

Maakhir garaads sent troops to Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi’s sixteenth-century wars. In 1613 Garaad Abdulle Mahmud I united the lordships as a hereditary state and made Durduri his capital. Its rulers traded frankincense and built ships at Las Khorey; in 1764 they adopted the title of sultan.