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Religious Site Attractions In Mogadishu

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Mogadishu , locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. Located in the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for millennia. As of 2017, it had a population of 2,425,000 residents.Tradition and old records assert that southern Somalia, including the Mogadishu area, was historically inhabited by hunter-gatherers. These were later joined by Cushitic-speaking agro-pastoralists, who would go on to establish local aristocracies. During its medieval Golden Age, Mogadishu was ruled by the Muzaffar dynasty, a vassal of the Ajuran Sultanate. It subsequently fell under the contr...
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  • 1. Union mosque Mogadishu
    The Islamic Courts Union was a group of Sharia courts that united themselves to form a rival administration to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, with Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as their head. They were also known as the Joint Islamic Courts, Union of Islamic Courts , Supreme Islamic Courts Council or the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts .Until the end of 2006, they controlled most of southern Somalia and the vast majority of its population, including most major cities such as Jowhar, Kismayo, Beledweyne, and the capital Mogadishu. The ICU was supported by warlord Yusuf Indho Ade Mohamed Siad who ruled Lower Shabelle but later became defense chief of the ICU, who aided in the defeat of the Mogadishu warlords. Only the Northern regions , and the furthest interior regions of the south...
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