Somali architecture
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Somali architecture is the engineering and designing of multiple different construction types such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, temples, aqueducts, lighthouses, towers and
Hobyo Sultanate Cavalry Standing Before A Somali Fort
Ancient ruins of Abasa, Awdal
Pyramidal tomb of the Patron "Flying Saint" Awbube
Old house built using stone masonry in Amud, Somaliland
History of Somalia
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Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.
Somali architecture
…to co-ordinate shipping and to ensure the safe entrance of commercial vessels in the nation's many port cities. In times of weak central authority the Somali civilizational matrix of interior cities and port cities was based on a clan formula that saw various clans in fierce competition over natural resources that led to…
The Silk Road extending from southern Europe through Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Persia, India and Java until it reaches China.
Ruins of the Sultanate of Adal in Zeila, Somalia.
Engraving of the 13th century Fakr ad-Din Mosque built by Fakr ad-Din, the first Sultan of the Sultanate of Mogadishu.
Mogadishan currency – The Sultanate of Mogadishu was an important monetary supporter of Adal.