Mogadishu Pictures
This video montage shows pictures and images of Mogadishu (meaning 'Seat of the Shah') from the 1800s onwards set to traditional Somalia music. Mogadishu is a very ancient city and dates back to at least the ninth century and was a cultural hybrid between Africa, Persia and the Arab world.
Although a prosperous trading city spanning millennia, it probably reached the zenith of its wealth in the fourteenth century.
The city was leased to Italy in 1892 and Italy went on to actually buy the city in its entirety thirteen years later, making it the capital of Italian Somaliland. Following the first world war thousands of Italians moved to Mogadishu and a modern building program started in the 1930 accompanied by the assimilation of many Somalis into the city culture.
By the end of the 1930, some 10,000 Italian Somalians were living in Mogadishu and the city continued to thrive under Italian rule until it fell to the British, who were operating out of Kenya, on February 26, 1941 during the Second World War.
This video shows pictures of Mogadishu throughout that period whilst to your right there are video pictures of Somali leaders across the years and below an interactive map of Mogadishu which you can use to zoom in and explore areas of interest in the city together with pictures of Mogadishu today.
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