Bimaal
| Bimaal بيمال | |
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| Dir Somali clan | |
Notable elders belonging to the Bimaal clan pictured in Merca | |
| Ethnicity | Somali |
| Location | Somalia |
| Descended from | Abu-Bakr (Dir) |
| Parent tribe | Dir |
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| Language | Somali Arabic |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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The Bimaal or Bimal, (Somali: Biimaal; Arabic:بيمال) are a sub-clan of the major Dir clan family. This clan is widely known for leading a resistance against the colonials in northern Somalia for decades which can be compared to the war of the Sayyid in Somaliland. The Biimaal mainly lives in southern Somalia, the Somali region of Ethiopia, which their Gaadsen sub-clan mainly inhabits.