The Somali community that has lived in East Africa for a long time has gone through different histories and ethnic groups in the area.
The history we are talking about, which starts from the eighth century, we will talk about the people who settled in Somalia, the people who lived there and the governments that they had in the famous cities of Somalia, especially those on the coast.
Let's look at this history from books written long ago and documents written by seafarers who used to come to coastal cities in Somalia.
We will mention this history in detail and mostly we will take it from a book written by a Somali Arab named Sharif Aydarus Ali Abubakar, who explained well what was the old Somalia.
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These questions and more will be answered every Saturday by the readers of the Selection Page, and we will bring you an interesting place every day. If we start from what is Mogadishu?, these cities with names when they were called like this was in ancient times and there is no definite history, but people used to meet or live in these cities who lived in these areas and those who came on a trip to the sea. which is mostly business.
Mogadishu, which the Arabs used to call Mogadish, was called Mogadishu, Merka, Barawe, Adale and War-sheikh.
According to the book Bugyatul-amaal Fi Tarikhi-Somaal, sometimes these cities were known as Banadir while the capital of Mogadishu was called separately.
At that time, the people who lived in these coastal cities were people who were good at business and it was a custom when they traveled that if they saw a place suitable for the environment, they did not go back to the place they traveled from and made a residential area there, which won the area. populated or inhabited in Somaliland.
How did you get the name Mogadishu?
Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia and located on the coast of the Indian Ocean, is one of the oldest cities in Somalia and also one of the cities in the world. Historians say that the name of Mogadishu comes from or is called Maqaddu shah which means the place where the king of the non-Arabs sits.
When Makanu became famous, the seat was nicknamed the capital. At an unknown date, the Arabs shortened the two words that are next to each other, Maqad and Shah, and they made it from Mogadishu.
The word Maqad was cut from this letter, then the words Maqad and Shah were removed, then the word became Maqad-Shah, while the Alif letter in Shah when written in Arabic was changed to Waw or ?W? , when the name became Mogadishu, after that some people used it like this, while others used the letter ?H? they threw it and said ? Mogadishu? which is the most commonly used. In that distant history, some people thought that the name of Mogadishu originally came from the place where cattle were sold, and the literate people at that time often used the pronunciation of ?Muqdisoh?. At the end of the 15th century, when the Portuguese conquered the coast of East Africa, they also called the name of this city ?Mogadishu? and phonetically similar to Arabic as the letter ?X? In Portuguese and Spanish it has the sound ?Sh?.