The great Ibn battuta and Zeng he visited Mogadishu

[Coeus]

Between the 13th and 14th centuries Somalia was visited by two famous Muslim explorers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He. Ibn Battuta in 1331 visited Mogadishu, which he described as a town of enormous size and its merchants possessed vast resources; they owned large numbers of camels, of which they slaughtered hundreds every day for food, and also had large quantities of sheep. The woven fabrics that were manufactured there he claimed were unequalled and were exported as far as Egypt and elsewhere. Zheng He on his fifth voyage (1417-19) visited several city states on the Somali coast including Mogadishu.

"The Somali peoples were never under any unified political structure" He said.

[Oxidant]

Source please?

[Coeus]

Source please?

http://www.somalipress.com/somalia-over ... -1050.html

[Oxidant]

A blog without any citation has hardly any credibility

[Bamaarn]

Oxidant, those 2 travellers visited Somalia. Check Wikipedia or Google.

[DatBreh]

Between the 13th and 14th centuries Somalia was visited by two famous Muslim explorers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He. Ibn Battuta in 1331 visited Mogadishu, which he described as a town of enormous size and its merchants possessed vast resources; they owned large numbers of camels, of which they slaughtered hundreds every day for food, and also had large quantities of sheep. The woven fabrics that were manufactured there he claimed were unequalled and were exported as far as Egypt and elsewhere. Zheng He on his fifth voyage (1417-19) visited several city states on the Somali coast including Mogadishu.

"The Somali peoples were never under any unified political structure" He said.

And 800 years later.......

[Coeus]

A blog without any citation has hardly any credibility

How about wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta#Somalia

[LobsterUnit]

IBn Batuta visited the Somali Berber Emir in Muqdisho and he described the Islamic state. However, there is no real evidence of the place his excellency, our chinese AKhi Zeng He visited. It could be various places in the coastal areas of the Horn.

[Coeus]

Between the 13th and 14th centuries Somalia was visited by two famous Muslim explorers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He. Ibn Battuta in 1331 visited Mogadishu, which he described as a town of enormous size and its merchants possessed vast resources; they owned large numbers of camels, of which they slaughtered hundreds every day for food, and also had large quantities of sheep. The woven fabrics that were manufactured there he claimed were unequalled and were exported as far as Egypt and elsewhere. Zheng He on his fifth voyage (1417-19) visited several city states on the Somali coast including Mogadishu.

"The Somali peoples were never under any unified political structure" He said.

And 800 years later.......

[Abdihaliim]

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/2 ... attuta.htm

"They eat rice cooked with ghee, which is served on a large wooden platter. On top they set dishes of kushan. These are relishes, composed of chicken, meat, fish and vegetables. In one dish they serve green bananas in fresh milk, in another yogurt with pickled lemon, bunches of pepper pickled in vinegar and salt, green ginger and mangoes. These are like apples, but with a pit. They are very sweet when ripe, but when immature are acid like lemons; they pickle the unripe mangoes in vinegar. They eat a mouthful of rice, then some of the salted and pickled relishes.

The Indian influence on this meal is obvious, but it has been adapted to local tastes. The rice and pepper would have been imported, but the mangoes were probably now grown locally, as was another Indian fruit, the jammun or jambul (Eugenia jambolana, java plum), which he encountered in Mombasa. Bananas also came to East Africa from India, perhaps as early as the 10th century. Although Ibn Battuta does not mention it, the meal was almost certainly served in Chinese bowls, much prized all along the East African coast. Special niches were built into the walls of dwellings in order to display the finer pieces.

After Mogadishu, Ibn Battuta sailed further south to Mombasa and Kilwa, both important trading cities. The wealth of these cities was later to strike the Portuguese, for it was based on the export not only of gold, but also of iron, which was sent to India, worked into steel, then re-exported to the Middle East. Ivory and tortoise-shell were other valuable exports. From Kilwa Ibn Battuta sailed to Dhufar, on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, now in Oman. This was the Incense Coast of classical times. Millet and barley, he reports, were grown near the town, irrigated from deep wells, and rice was imported from India."

Ereyada afka hindiga ee ku jira afka soomaaliga:

Surin=tunnel but somalis use as "road"
baaqi =remains
baraf= ice
gaari= car
Yaahuu = oh my God¨