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Through collusive agreement by Somali and Gulf Arab traders, Indian/Chinese cinnamon was also exported for far higher prices to North Africa, the Near East and Europe, which made the cinnamon trade a very profitable revenue generator, especially for the Somali merchants through whose hands large quantities were shipped across ancient sea and ...
January 26, 1991 C.E. – ongoing Somali Civil War June 4, 2006 C.E. – December 20, 2006 C.E. Advance of the Islamic Courts Union May 7, 2006 C.E. – July 11, 2006 C.E. Battle of Mogadishu
Pages in category "Category-Class WikiProject Somalia pages" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 311 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [16] [17] [18] of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis and the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic , though the former is the primary language.
[11] [12] On June 23, 2012, the Somali federal and regional leaders met again and approved a draft constitution after several days of deliberation. [13] The National Constituent Assembly overwhelmingly passed the new constitution on August 1, with 96% of the 645 delegates present voting for it, 2% against it, and 2% abstaining.
The Somali city-state was preceded by the Kingdom of Macrobia, which had its center at Opone, located in the modern-day Hafun Peninsula. This is suggested by Agarwal, an Indian scholar who has been studying the Macrobian civilization and its history, placing it in Somalia. After the fall of the Macrobian Empire, the Somali city-state was formed.
History of Somalia by topic (8 C, 1 P) Histories of cities in Somalia (2 C) Somalia history-related lists (16 P) A. Archaeology of Somalia (1 C, 1 P) D.
Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Persian Gulf pottery has been recovered from the site by an archaeological team from the University of Michigan.In the 1970s, Neville Chittick, a British archaeologist, initiated the British-Somali expedition where he and his Somali colleagues encountered remains of ancient drystone walls, houses with courtyards, and the location of the old harbour.