Mogadishu
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Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has
Lido beach from the sea in Mogadishu
Newly completed apartments in uptown Mogadishu city
Newly renovated Sayid Mohamed Abdulle monument in Mogadishu
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Italian Somalis
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Italian Somalis are Somali-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Somalia during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in So
Downtown Mogadishu in 1928. At the centre is the Catholic Cathedral, similar to that of Cefalù in Sicily and now destroyed. Near the Cathedral, the Arch monument is to commemorate King Umberto I of Italy.
Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, founder of the Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi, the main agricultural settlement in Italian Somaliland
A voting registration card in Mogadishu during the British military administration (1949)
View of the Mogadishu harbor in 1925