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Caynaanshe | |
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 1880s Map featuring Rer Ainanshe in the Burao area | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Somalia, Ethiopia, Somaliland | |
| Languages | |
| Somali | |
| Religion | |
| Islam (Sunni) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Eidagale, Habr Je'lo, Habr Awal, Arap, other Somalis |
The Reer Caynaashe also spelled Reer Caynaanshe (English: Rer Ainanshe) are a royal Somali clan and were the dynastic rulers of the Habr Yunis Sultanate.[1][2] They divide into 17 major sub-clans that together form the Baha Ainanshe and Rer Sugulle, from the latter descend the rulers of the Habr Yunis Sultanate.[3] They inhabit the Togdheer and Maroodi Jeex regions of Somaliland and the Daroor, Danot and Misraq Gashamo regions of Ethiopia[4]
- ^ Kirk, J.W.C (1905). A Grammar of the Somali Language With Examples in Prose and Verse and an Account of the Yibir and Midgan Dialects. London: Cambridge University press. ISBN 9780511708671.
- ^ Philip Paulitscheke (1893). Ethnographie Nordost-afrikas. D. Reimer. p. 45.
- ^ Ralph E. Drake Brockman (1912). British SomaliLand. p. 82.
- ^ A general survey of the Somaliland Protectorate 1944-1950. p. 147.