Question: How were the same people who the Somali Muslim Ajuran Empire declared independence from expelled from the natural boundary between Thailand and the country where Khong Island is found?

somali people in the horn of africa are divided among different countries (somalia, djibouti, ethiopia, and northeastern kenya) that were artificially and some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former imperial powers. pan-somalism is an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic somalis once part of somali empires such as the ajuran empire, the adal sultanate, the gobroon dynasty and the dervish state under one flag and one nation. the siad barre regime actively promoted pan-somalism, which eventually led to the ogaden war between somalia on one side, and ethiopia, cuba and the soviet union on the other. <SEP> The discovery of new maritime trade routes by Western European states allowed them to avoid the Ottoman trade monopoly. The Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 initiated a series of Ottoman-Portuguese naval wars in the Indian Ocean throughout the 16th century. The Somali Muslim Ajuran Empire, allied with the Ottomans, defied the Portuguese economic monopoly in the Indian Ocean by employing a new coinage which followed the Ottoman pattern, thus proclaiming an attitude of economic independence in regard to the Portuguese. <SEP> Khong Island or Don Khong is the largest island and the seat of administration in the Si Phan Don riverine archipelago located in the Mekong River, Khong District, Champasak Province, southern Laos. <SEP> It restored a smaller, more manageable kingdom, encompassing Lower Myanmar, Upper Myanmar, Shan states, Lan Na and upper Tenasserim. The Restored Toungoo kings created a legal and political framework whose basic features would continue well into the 19th century. The crown completely replaced the hereditary chieftainships with appointed governorships in the entire Irrawaddy valley, and greatly reduced the hereditary rights of Shan chiefs. Its trade and secular administrative reforms built a prosperous economy for more than 80 years. The dynasty regrouped and defeated the Portuguese in 1613 and Siam in 1614. From the 1720s onward, the kingdom was beset with repeated Meithei raids into Upper Myanmar and a nagging rebellion in Lan Na. In 1740, the Mon of Lower Myanmar founded the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom. Hanthawaddy forces sacked Ava in 1752, ending the 266-year-old Toungoo Dynasty. <SEP> It lies along the Indian and Eurasian Plates, to the southeast of the Himalayas. To its west is the Bay of Bengal and to its south is the Andaman Sea. It is strategically located near major Indian Ocean shipping lanes. Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the northwestern-most country of mainland Southeast Asia, bordering China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos. <SEP> the land within the borders of current portugal has been continuously settled and fought over since prehistoric times. the celts and the romans were followed by the visigothic and the suebi germanic peoples, who were themselves later invaded by the moors. these muslim peoples were eventually expelled during the christian reconquista of the peninsula. by 1139, portugal had established itself as a kingdom independent from león. in the 15th and 16th centuries, as the result of pioneering the age of discovery, portugal expanded western influence and established the first global empire, becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers.