If Zeila is the true capital and roots of Somalia, then why is Mogadishu the capital of Somalia?

Nawal9 · Post by **Nawal9** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:02 pm

The roots of Somalia came from the ancient city of Zeila, not Mogadishu...why was that city even chosen as the capital!? It's so far south, that I doubt our ancestors lived in that city near the bantus.

GAMES · Post by **GAMES** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:25 pm

They wanted to get as far away as possible from the dumb and violent Dhulos.

inaXasan · Post by **inaXasan** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:36 pm

Muqdisho is more than 2200 years old. it's predecessor was called Maqcad-Shah by the Persians and Serapion by Greeks & Romans. Let's also not forget the 10th century Muqdisho Sultanate.
Muqdisho is definitely a great city and deserves it's high status. It's a few centuries younger than Northern cities but it's important to Somalis none the less.

Also, what Roots from Zeila? you do know Somalis lived in many other bigger ancient cities than Zeila right?

JSL3000 · Post by **JSL3000** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:43 pm

Saylac is in somaliland.

mogadishu is a swahili city state don't mix up the two there two worlds apart.
https://youtu.be/MYKbk0coJAA

JSL3000 · Post by **JSL3000** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:44 pm

inaXasan · Post by **inaXasan** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:55 pm

Also, the Ajuuran Empire made it experience a golden age making it the richest city in the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese tried to take it but were defeated many times by the Ajuraans. After the Ajuurans the Geledis took it then the Cumanis and then finally Italians making it the capital of Somalia.

Actually I can go as far and say Muqdisho is the greatest Somali city in our history

Renis · Post by **Renis** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:02 pm

GAMES wrote:They wanted to get as far away as possible from the dumb and violent Dhulos.

LOLLL....

But instead you guys got al shabab

GAMES · Post by **GAMES** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:09 pm

No problem. Its all good, from Diego to the Bay, your city is the bomb if your city making pay.

In other words, what that means is:

1. From Ras Kambooni ilaa iyo Zeylac is dhul Somali.

2. From the Red sea to the Gulf of Aden is Somalia.

AbkoowDhiblaawe · Post by **AbkoowDhiblaawe** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:47 pm

inaXasan wrote:Also, the Ajuuran Empire made it experience a golden age making it the richest city in the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese tried to take it but were defeated many times by the Ajuraans. After the Ajuurans the Geledis took it then the Cumanis and then finally Italians making it the capital of Somalia.

Actually I can go as far and say Muqdisho is the greatest Somali city in our history

Geledis never controlled Muqdisho. It was the Hiiraab imamate that defeated the Ajuuran's.

JSL3000 · Post by **JSL3000** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:06 pm

Zeila/saylac was the capital of the powerful adal suldanate while mogadishu was a swahili city state.

AwRastaale · Post by **AwRastaale** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:12 pm

A lot of clueless kids in this place. Not sure where they are released from.

Somalis never had or lived under common state and that simply means they never had a universal capital seat.

The south was always ruled by southerners apart from few northerners who went there as migrants such as that kid from Berbera that briefly ruled Mogadishu (Geledi member no different than Godane).

The north was always under northerners.

Even during the Adal kingdom, there was no southerners unlike what the Kacaan tried to tell them. They lived under Ajuraan while the north with its capital in Zeila was under Adal/Ifat Empire.

Southern rule, no contact with the north.

Today is no different.

Togdeer · Post by **Togdeer** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:14 pm

Zaila is so ancient it has a mosque that faces batul qudus instead of Mecca

theyuusuf143 · Post by **theyuusuf143** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:33 pm

What's Somalia??

mahoka · Post by **mahoka** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:05 pm

theyuusuf143 wrote:What's Somalia??

Amison training centre

Revolutionary · Post by **Revolutionary** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 10:52 pm

AwRastaale wrote:

Today is no different.

Have Ajuuran ever confront the Portuguese empire? According to the map, they're neighbors.

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