Ughaz Roble I

Ughaz Roble rose to prominence within the Issa (clan) during the latter half of the 19th century, eventually assuming the esteemed title of Ugaas, a position of leadership and authority. Ughaz Roble, a revered leader among his people, wielded significant influence and authority that stemmed from his exceptional power. The Italian explorer, Antonio Cecchi, noted that through his leadership, the Ughaz possessed the remarkable ability to amass a formidable army of up to 40,000 men in times of conflict or war.{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_nuova-antologia-revista-di-lettere-scienze-ed-arti_1885-09-16_83 |title=Nuova Antologia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 1885-09-16: Vol 83 |date=1885-09-16 |publisher=Nuova Antologia |others=Internet Archive |language=Italian}}

The future Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II used to pay some sort of tribute to the Ughaz so his caravans and guests arrive safely.{{Cite book |last=Società geografica italiana |url=http://archive.org/details/bollettinodella55italgoog |title=Bollettino della Società geografica italiana |date=1868 |publisher=Roma : Società geografica italiana |others=University of Michigan}} In 1876, the Ughaz was received and welcomed in Zeila in a very splendid way; the Pasha residents there celebrated him and went to receive him in Tocoscia. It is distinguished from the other leaders, because it is equipped with a garment, an umbrella and for the large amount of amulets, pockets and pouches. It was precisely by him that the tribute of fifty thalers and a piece of special cotton was imposed on the first expedition, which the Pasha paid instantly.File:UgaasAbode.jpg Robleh Farah in saylac who is hosting a special guest ]]Saylac was the seat of Ughaz Roble, saylacwhere his main palace was situated.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-08 |title=Qalcad (Jaldessa) |url=https://horaysocodkaabe.wordpress.com/qalcad-jaldessa/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=Kaabe |language=en-GB}} The Egyptian soldiers led an invasion of Harar and had entered saylac in 1875, leaving a garrison there, which would later be the seat of Ughaz Roble .{{Cite book |last=Nieuważny |first=Adam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DndMEAAAQBAJ&dq=Nole+Oromo&pg=PA17 |title=Civil status documents from Harar under Egyptian Administration 1875–1885 |date=2021-11-01 |publisher=Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Warsaw |isbn=978-83-954430-8-4 |language=en}} Cecchi's description of Ughaz Roble is as following:{{blockquote|The current great chief is called Uadi-Dubli-Fara, also called Ugas-Robli; he is tall in person, with slender limbs like all his fellow country men; he has a fairly smart eye, a crushed nose and a face thrown by the vajuolo. He wears Turkish trousers, covers his shoulders with an ordinary canvas mantle and his head with a coarse tarbush, wrapped in a turban, in whose folds there is no shortage of papers and amulets. He has rather kind manners, and in the speeches he takes on an oratorical character, imposing himself with great effectiveness, and at the same time he jokes with his subjects and even with the boys who graze camels."{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_nuova-antologia-revista-di-lettere-scienze-ed-arti_1885-09-16_83 |title=Nuova Antologia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 1885-09-16: Vol 83 |date=1885-09-16 |publisher=Nuova Antologia |others=Internet Archive |language=Italian}}}}Philipp Paulitschke, an Austrian explorer, travelled to and explored Egypt and Nubia in 1880 and between 1884 and 1885 with Dominik Kammel Edler von Hardegger (1844–1915) the Somali and Galla lands.{{Cite web |title=Philipp Paulitschke |url=https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Philipp_Paulitschke |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at |language=de}} Paulitschke mentioned that the Ugas wished to see him and his group immediately. It was there they saw a giant man with a deep black complexion, an unusually thin, dull face, sleepy eyes, prominent cheekbones, dressed in a snow-white coat, was standing there. Marro, brandishing a small stick in his right hand, in front of the tent: His highness the Ugaas Roble Farah "The Rain Prince".{{Cite book |last1=Paulitschke |first1=Philipp Viktor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=shlXAAAAMAAJ&q=Roble |title=Harar: Forschungsreise nach den Somâl und Gallaländern, Ost-Afrikas |last2=Hardegger |first2=Dominik Kammel von |date=1888 |publisher=F. A. Brockhaus |language=de}}

• Egyptian invasion of the Eastern Horn of Africa
• Somali aristocratic and court titles
• Saylac
• Khedivate's Somali Coast
• Khedivate of Egypt

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•https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:oht/law-oht-164-CTS-405.regGroup.1/law-oht-164-CTS-405

•https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ugaas_Rooble_1885.jpg

•https://saxafimedia.com/the-ethiopian-british-somaliland-boundary/

•https://www.somalispot.com/threads/great-historical-image-ugaas-rooble-in-harrar-1888.29974/

https://german.wikibrief.org/wiki/Ughaz__Farah

https://www.scribd.com/document/127192002/The-Issa Somali-Script-by-I-M-lewis

• https://archive.org/details/sim_literary-gazette_1844-02-17_1413/page/118/mode/2up
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