MAAMUL GOBOLEED CUSUB OO MAR DHAWLAGU DHAWAAQI DOONO? !

[Somaliweyn]

Fale,

This Digil Mirifle name is political...its a concept used by Raxanweyn to assimilitate smaller groups into their group. If Hawiye subclans like Wacdaan, Hilibi, Ilaaway, Silic etc do not watch out they will be assimilitated into Raxanweyn.

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As for the Lower Shabelle....historical fact records that Hawiye lived their since the 12th century..way before the Raxanweyn and Dir (Biyamaal) came to the region as a consequence of the Oromo expansion into parts of Horn of Africa.

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Here is an excerpt from The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume III C1050-1600:

''The two important towns on the Benadir coast, Brava and Merca, had also taken shape in the same period. Cerulli reports an Arabic inscription from Brava, commemorating the death of a Muslim resident in 1104/5, which certainly indicates the existence of a highly developed Muslim community there in the eleventh century.

Merca was also an important settlement in the same period. Al-Idrisi (1100-62) gives a failry accurate description of its location in his geographical treatise written in about 1150. It was a coastal town and two stages away from it in the interior there was a river of which the rich valley produced much corn. This was certainly the Webe Shebele, to which Al-Idrisi also seems to make another reference when he locates fifty villages of the Hawiye along the bank of an unnamed river.

The Hawiya still form one of the most important tribes of the Somali and at the time when Al-Idrisi was writing his book they occupied the coastal area between Ras Hafun and Merca, as wel as the lower basin of the Webe Shebele.

Al-Idrisi mention of the Hawiya is the first documentary reference to a specific Somali group in the Horn, and it constitutes a very important testimony to the early Somali occupancy of the whole region. Later Arab writers also make references to the Hawiya in connection with both Merca and the lower valley of the Webe Shebele.
Ibn Said (1214-74), for instance, considered Merca to be the capital of the Hawiya, who lived in fifty villages on the bank of a river which he called 'the Nile of Mogadishu' a clear reference to the Webe Shebele''