James Dahl wrote:X.Playa wrote:There was no Daarood anywhere near Zeila, in fact most of the Daarood moved from Puntland region around the end of the 1700s . The Isaaq moved into Sanaag before the Daaroods and the Isaaq moved towards Zeila before the Daaroods,
While the main Darod center was Gidaya and Hargaya (the Jigjiga region to north of Harar), there were of course Darod in Zeila, there were all clans in Zeila, it was an economic and political center, the Muqdisho if it's day. Modern Zeila is a ghost town and a ruin, the town was completely destroyed when the Portuguese burned it to the ground in the 1600s. The Turks rebuilt the modern town of Zeila, which has been slowly crumbling ever since. There used to be a ton of Arabs in Zeila who mostly left for Yemen following Somali independence, and a surprisingly large Jewish population who all moved to Israel in the 1960s.
The Adal state was a multi-clan state. Adal had Hawiye, Darod, Dir, Isaaq, Argobba, Cafar and Arabs all living together in one state.
Ghost town..ruined? Many people still live there to this day, but it's not at its zeinth thats the difference, it's a wonderful town AMIIN.
How can A white man who googles zaylac 24/7 any Somali about Zaylac

his Darood/Ogadeen theories are kiling me, wallahi, The jews in zaylac did move to isreal but A somali probobly told you this, james is a google fiend how can you let a white man teach you about history.
You will never know about Zaylac no matter how much you google, Zaylac was cosmopolitan but there are always majorities and rulers and indigenous people
tons of arabs...what? Zaylac probably had more canfar then arabs, but Somalis were the majority. I bet it burns james dahl no one will ever want to teach a gaalo ( non somali) Af Zaylaci lol. but i can learn in two seconds by my zaylici cousins. life is unfair