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Author Hagi Scikei, Nuredin, author

Title Exploring the old stone town of Mogadishu / Nuredin Hagi Scikei
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 125 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Glossary; Bibliography; Gallery
Summary Mogadishu is a medieval trading city in Somalia, which reached the peak of its prosperity during the 14th and 15th centuries, when it became an important commercial and cultural crossroad between the Middle East, India and Eastern Africa. This text describes the incredible and neglected history of the Mogadishu. Rich and rare photographic evidence in the text makes it possible to explore the mosques, ruins, gravestones and residences with their 300-year old beams. The book will be of interest not just to scholars of history and archaeology, but also to anyone concerned by the destruction and d
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Architecture -- Somalia -- Mogadishu -- History
Architecture -- Somalia -- Mogadishu -- History -- Pictorial works
Archaeology -- Somalia -- Mogadishu
African history.
Archaeology.
Architecture.
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Architecture
Archaeology
African history.
Architecture.
Archaeology.
History.
SUBJECT Mogadishu (Somalia) -- History -- To 1500
Subject Somalia -- Mogadishu
Genre/Form Pictorial works
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781527506855
1527506851