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PL start to care for Ancient cities after PL government propose it to the parliament and became law .
Magaalooyin taariikhi ah oo burburay oo laga helay dooxada Nugaal
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Nomads probably needed places to rest and maybe sell their goods and purchase stuff they couldn't find in baadiye. This reminds me of cities like Timbuktu that became centers of trade despite being in the middle of the desert.
As dr Sada Mire wrote in her book there's evidence of ancient towns all over the interrior of northern Somalia with even ancient ge'ez and sabean writing.
Tbh it was the Somalis themselves who said it was built by non somalis because they associated ancient ruins with paganism and Christianity so they wanted to distance themselves from them.
Not really. Somalis told this BS to colonizers, they rationalized their pre islamic past bu saying it was built by Harla people. According to many historians the mysterious harla people were incorporated into northern Somali qabils especially Darood. The somali oral history was kinda accurate, they correctly identified some ancient ruins as being pagan or Christian which is confirmed by historians. Sada Mire talks about these issues in depth, somali natives basically wanted to portray themselves as being from arabia to distance themselves from any non muslim past.
Yes. But we are to quick to think somalis were completely islamized in the middle ages while we only have evidence of somali being muslims in coastal towns during that period. It's likely places like Nugaal stayed either pagan or weakly muslim in the middle ages
I said MAYBE. Once upon a time somalis were pagan. Somalis were fully islamized by the 12-13th century which means that between 7th and 13th century there were still somalis who were pagan.Perhaps your clan were pagan, but Harti have history written about us and we were Muslim in the Middle Ages. Our clan were one of the main components in Imam Ahmed Gureyβs army. Kulaha Nugaal stayed pagan.
Because we don't know if they were Islamic. Somalis knowigly forgot all pre Islamic stuff so if they forgot this particular town it may be because it was associated with pre islamic somalis.
I can almost bet that there definitely is some major ancient cities up in the North like Hafun (Ancient Opone) for example. Only 0.025% of the city was excavated and there already were signs of major civilization.
