CULTURE Somalis and Horses

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Degodia horsemen

 

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The horse of Sultan Olol Dinle

 

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Horse race in Xamar

 

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Galhareeri welcoming a state visit in 1989

 

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Dayniile airport

 

[The alchemist]

Somalis were ruthless to their horses not withsantding being skilled on top of the animals. I have come across several old accounts of that descirption of old texts. Stating Somalis were great at handling them but were insensitive to the horses.

I've read that Somali horses are specialized adaptable due to the enviromental conditions, having increased strenght and endurance relying on less water. The size reflects this with diminutive stature. They're not ponies technically, but reduced in size for optimization.

 

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Qundhura/Kundudo/Damero Korey. Some historians say that this is the actual Hobat but the Karanles say, it was a military base The Karanles called this place "feral horses sanctuary " hundreds of yrs back unlike the historians.

Apart from the Feral horses, Medieval Masjids are being uncovered at Qundura mountains where Haji Mohamed Hawi(Xawi)/Hawiye, Karanle and Xaskul are burried in the mountain area and Gursum faces it’s Qiblah direction. This area was added to Oromia during the Kilil divisions of Ethiopia. Until today Hawiyes & Karanle live there with other people

Emperor Haile Selassie obtained his first mount from the Kundudo pack 107 years ago. This makes them the oldest known feral horse population in Africa.

The herd has been the focus since 2008 of six Italian and Italo-British ecologic missions to try and save it and offer locals economic alternatives to the peculiar area's destruction.

A second mission in March 2008 revealed the whereabouts of the captive horses and found rock paintings in a cave in the mountain complex, giving rise to hopes of future tourism development in the area.

Seven horses were reported as then freed and presently on the amba's top by the Addis Ababa-based GAG, a local interest group for the preservation of the Kundudo range and promote the Gursum area.

A major Italian aid organization is preparing a medium size aid program that stems from the research. A series of related activities are being created to save the herd and promote the area as the end point of a tourist route named "the Extended East Route" to include Harar, the Awash National park the Kuni Mukhtar National park and some other destinations of cultural, nature and historic interest in the East of Ethiopia, forming a destination cluster with Harar itself, including Koremi village, the Babille Elephant Sanctuary (or Harar wild life sanctuary)and the nearby Dhakata valley, a number of rock painting locations between Harar and the Kundudo itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundudo

 

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Dayniile airport formally built by Qanyare has made a side business from horse racing, the Qanyare family are said to personally own a few hundred

 

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Horses are common at weddings there

 

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Wedding in luuq

 

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[killerxsmoke]

 

[Natalie]

Very insightful thread.

 

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@Libaax-Joore E-BY8081

 

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Murusade and their horses at Independence Day.

 

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[GaradShabeel]

Do you breed your own horses locally in Daynile and Ceel Buur today?

 

[Libaax-Joore]

Do you breed your own horses locally in Daynile and Ceel Buur today?

Qardho