Merca (Somali: Marka, Arabic: ماركا) is the capital city of the Lower Shebelle province of Somalia, a historic port city in the region. It is located...
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The Port of Merca (Somali: Dekada Marka, Italian: Porto di Merca) also known as Merca Port, is the official seaport of Merca, situated in southeastern...
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"Aden A. Osman, 99; first president of independent Somalia". Los Angeles Times. 10 June 2007. Retrieved 9 October 2013. Janaale Port of Merca Genale...
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located 11 km from Merca. The city was linked to the Port of Merca by a decauville railway, used to transport the huge production of bananas of the farms around...
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Banadir resistance (redirect from Merca Revolt)
The Banadir resistance, also known as the Bimaal revolt, Merca revolt, or simply the Bimaal resistance, was a guerrilla war that lasted from the 1890s...
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Abdullahi Issa (category 20th-century prime ministers of Somalia)
broke out, he was still a student. Issa later relocated to the port of Merca at the age of sixteen, where he would work as a postal clerk from 1939 to 1941...
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Somali Civil War (category Civil wars of the 20th century)
forces battled those of Osman Atto for control of the port of Merca as well as strategic areas in Mogadishu. Fighting in Merca eventually ended after...
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dominated the strategic Banaadir port of Merca and its surroundings. One of the Italian's greatest fears was the spread of 'Dervishism' ( had come to mean...
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Ajuran Sultanate (redirect from Sultanate of Ajuuraan)
the Galguduud region of Somalia) Qelafo (town in the Somali Region of Ethiopia) Merca (port city in the Lower Shebelle region of Somalia) Mogadishu (harbor...
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in Horseed, a district of Merca. The club was founded in the Port of Merca in 1950 by descendants of Italian colonists in Merca during the ONU mandate...
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