Taariikhda Magaalada Luuq (Ganaane)

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

Taariikhda Magaalada Luuq

Luuq Ganaane One of the most important commercial and political centers for the Gedo region, about 410 kilometeres northwest of Mogadishu, 170 kilometers from Baidoa and 65 kilometeres from capital region of Garbaharrey. Luuq in in Somali language means a loop or an enclosure. The town is located on high land surrounded on three sides by the meandering Juba River, called Ganane by Luuq's inhabitants, in the Juba valley.

The fascists built an asphalt road from Baidoa to Luuq, where in 1935 Italian colonial forces gathered to invade Ethiopia. General Rodolfo Graziani, the commander of the fronte sud, considered Luuq vital both for protecting the supply route from Dolow to Harar and for defending the security of the fronte Sud as a whole.

In addition to its strategic and historic importance, Luuq was the southern gateway to the Horn of Africa, from which all trade arived and departed, the crossroads between the commercial towns of northeastern Kenya, southern Ethiopia, and central Somalia and the meeting point where merchants exchaged goods.

The Jubba was navigable from the Ethiopian highlands to the Indian Ocean. Thus, in the 19th century, Omani Arabs traded with the merchants of Luuq. The Omani Arabs, from Zanzibar, and the Ethiopians, from the highlands of Ethiopia, both attempted to capture the city; later, the Ethiopian emperor Menelik II invaded in campaigns from 1892 to 1895, but the city successfully resisted his forces.

European explorers recognized how useful the river was for colonial penetration and domination. However, several early explorers were killed, among them the German Carl Claus Von der Decken (1865) and the Italian Vittorio Bottego (d. 1897), whose diaries were immediately published and used as guides for exploration and colonization.

Another Italian explorer, Ugo Ferrandi, lived in Luuq for 17 months and wrote many useful reports on the city and the surrounding region. Because of Luuq's reputation, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Ethiopia competed for colonial dominance. Luuq is famous for its suuq(market), where people from all over the region with their different clothing and languages gathered to buy a great range of goods, from vegetables to gold and silver. The town is well laid out and is perhaps the earliest example of urban planning in Somalia. In addition to the royal residence and the merchants' houses, there are residential quarters where the houses have no windows and are fenced with wooden gates.

Different parts of the town are designated for specific purposes, such as the slaughter of animals (Kawaan), schools(Dugsi), worship(Masjid), the courts (Maxkamad), the dead, that is, the cemetery(Xabaal), and finally, the farms (Beer). The town is exclusively Muslim, mostly from the Marehan clan, with the Gasaaraguse and Gobawein, their subjects, the second most numerous. The are mixed-race groups; Gallas, mostly from Ethiopia; and Swahilis from Zanzibar and the mainland coast of East African.

During the Italian colonial administration, Luuq was part of the Alta Giubba(Upper Jubba Region), but Mohamed Siad Barre, created a new regional entity called Gedo, so that Luuq become part of Gedo region. Indeed, from 1974 the nomadic Reer Hassan clan(a sub-clan of the Larger Marehan), settled in Luuq and drove out the original inhabitants,

References
^ UNDOS (United Nations Development Office for Somalia) Regional Report: Gedo Region. Global Information Networks in Education (GINIE). URL accessed on December 19, 2005. (Note: PDF file)

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[Xamud.]

Reer Hassan Rageedi driving out niggaz like it aint no thing taking land by force cuz they want too.

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

u know who conquered Gedo for Mareexaan??

us we drove out the Oromos

[hometown-hottie]

@ Oromos.

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

what so funny HTH??

[Advocatar]

once by brother's friend was eating by an allegator when they were swimming in the local river...............that place is dangerous.

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

[NoAngst.]

Luug Aw Madoow (it's popular name) was traditional home of Gasaargude Dynasty founded by Aw Kalafow (the gereed) in 14th century lasting until 19th century. To this day members of Raxanweyn nation pay homage to his shrine in Luug. Mareexaan have no business with this city. During the democratic government before the Barre Faqash occupation, all of Luug's parliamentary representatives were Raxanweyns and spoke Maay-maay.

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

Gasaargude are our slaves u fool

[Ugaas Diini]

Luuq is beautiful.....the home of the reer xasan braves.

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

UD,

Is BeledXaawo majority Reer Shirwac Diini??

[Ugaas Diini]

No saaxib, all types of Marexaan live there. Reer Shirwac deegaan in Gedo is several small towns outside Bardheere and in Galgaduud, we live in Balanbale with other marexaans.

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

whose Buule Garaad??

[NoAngst.]

sadaam, this is what the Italians had to say about gereed (sultan) Ali Hassan Nuur when they visited: ?He is righteous, humble and above all generous. He is loved and honoured by his
people. Annually, he donates grain to the poor of the of the community, and
monthly adorns the eldest member of each six with the Long gowns?". Now that is what I called civilisation!

Camel pirates, go home!