Guban,
Thanks for the file. Here is one that can be read
MrNutritionist,
This topic doesn't concern you.
No need for your trolling.
X-Playa, Guban, Rooble and the other northerners/Landers
I have a different theory as to why Hawd was named Hawd especially under the Protectrate. One thing I can't locate is the names of the regions before the British. X-Playa seems to have done works on this chapter, can he share documents on the names of the regions before the British and if not how many regions were under the British Somaliland.
Here is my theory guys.
The name Hawd is not indigenous to Somalis. It may have been referred to as a direction in the British Somaliland but there is window of possibility that it was either named by the British itself or someone that had experience with the Middle East.
My other question is where were the first barkado/reservoirs dug in Somaliland? Can someone find files/documents on that.
I heard the first barkado were dug in Hawd especially in the Daroor valley. My own family dug a 10m by 15m barkad (depth unsure but no more than 5m) in the late 1950s. Already there were others. The pre-existing ones were much smaller.
Hawd as I have stated before means cistern in Arabic. It was used ever since the Islam emerged or the Arabic script spread.
A cistern (Middle English cisterne, from Latin cisterna, from cista, "box", from Greek κίστη kistê, "basket")[1] is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater.
Waterproof lime plaster cisterns in the floors of houses are features of Neolithic village sites of the Levant at, for instance, Ramad and Lebwe,[2] and by the late fourth millennium BC, as at Jawa in northeastern Lebanon, cisterns are essential elements of emerging water management techniques in dry-land farming communities.
From here we know the Arabs were exposed to the idea very early on.
Another thing we imported was the term Barkad (
Birket) itself. Birket (pool) and Hawd (cistern) were more or less the same in Arabia/Jerusalem/Lebanon.
Pools of Jerusalem
The pools of Jerusalem consist of series of pools including what is locally known as Birket el-Hamra, Birket el-Khalil, Birket as-Sultan Suleiman al-Kanuni, Birket Hammim el'Batrak and others. Most of them are found within the Damascus Gate, which is in the old Jerusalem. And few in Bethlehem.
All empires who invaded Palestine discovered these works.
The Byzantine empire is said to have constructed these series of barkado in and around Jerusalem. The Ottoman Empire will later borrow and even construct one in Berbera which works to this day. Someone can share that to show the similarities between Jerusaleem pools and the Ottoman work there.
Look into the pool at the end of Hezekiah's tunnel with its Byzantine pillar bases
That's the story of 'barkad aka birket'.
In regards to a Palestinian village.
The French explorer Victor Guérin visited in 1870 and found "an ancient marble column at the door of a mosque; in the valley below the village a large square well, built with regular stones and surmounted by a vaulted construction. Near the well a birket, no longer used, and partly filled up, and close at hand the foundations of an ancient tower, measuring 15 paces by 10, and built with large masonry."[6] In 1873, SWP surveyed three ancient rock-cut tombs north of the village.[7]
Now Hawd
Mahrayha is gacan.
Hawd being a reservoir where water is stored the British saw the first birkets in Hawd region and probably just made the link and called it Hawd. My argument is Hawd is really the history of barkado/birket in SL. The British used the climate and landmarks to name the regions such as Gubaan, Ogo and Hawd (birket place). The British and its allies already occupied Palestine and was exposed to birket/Hawd. It is the same how they imported the "Mullah" title from places like Afghanistan.
Can you prove that birket existed in SL anywhere else before Hawd?
In the hadeeth al Hawd is described as body of water in Paradise.
