Castles, forts and other ancient Somali structures

[Dima&Damo]

Hobyo

 

[Dima&Damo]

Bosaso

 

[MT Foxtrot]

Does anyone know the name and history of this building? It's in Mogadishu.

 

[killerxsmoke]

Qandala in the 1800s, sketch was made by this French Traveller.


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This is an aerial picture of the town, it looks like it was enclosed by some kind of structure.

how can i search the coordinates in google earth

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Caluula, Bari.

Ruins of the buildings in the first capital of the Majeerteenia Sultanate. Most forts and castles were bombed during aerial attacks launched by Italy and their footsoldiers from Eritrea and beyond.

 

[Cognitive]

Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire

This paper presents the results of some of the surveys conducted to map archaeological sites of Somaliland and includes almost 100 new and previously unpub- lished sites. The survey work was conducted by several of Somaliland’s Department of

www.academia.edu

I do not know if this study is posted but it might be helpful.

 

[LibaanSom]

 

[LibaanSom]

 

[killerxsmoke]

 

[killerxsmoke]

Gondershe Ruins

someone needs to go there and get a new picture, i heard that al-Shabaab conrols there

 

[killerxsmoke]

Mosque of sheikh cali maye in merca

 

[killerxsmoke]

Merca

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Boqor of Majeerteenia's place in Bareeda, Bari. He lived there around 1906

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Suldaan Keenadiid's Castle in Hobyo

(Sultanate of Hobyo)

 

[killerxsmoke]

Inside sheikh Sufi Tomb

this man below was the caretaker

 

[Strawberry]

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The eastern gate of bardheere
Bardheere was a walled town in the interior of somalia.

Is it still the same ? Are these walls still standing ?

 

[Hamzza]

Is it still the same ? Are these walls still standing ?

No, they were demolished long ago

 

[Maintainnnin]

Some Pre-civil war photos of Muqdisho I had saved in my computer.

 

[Maintainnnin]

Some more photos of Muqdisho

 

[Maintainnnin]

Even More of Muqdisho. Had saved these photos back in 2018-2019 forgot I had some gems.