DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Yeah not sure where that came from...Malagsy are people with origins in Borneo though.
Lets Talk African History: Somalis. An underrated history
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Yeah not sure where that came from...Malagsy are people with origins in Borneo though.
Merca, Somalia.
Like the Coral design of some Somali architecture.
Like the Coral design of some Somali architecture.
Grano-Grano
The Bando
Merca, Somalia.
Like the Coral design of some Somali architecture.
Birthplace of my father.
Interesting! What part of the country is that city in?
Grano-Grano
The Bando
The South. It was part of the resistance against the Portuguese with the Ajuran Sultanate in the 16th century and the Italians in the 18th century. Look up Merca revolt or Biimaal resistance. It was one of the most important port cities of Somalis in the middle ages and before.
Interesting. Did the city avoid damage in the civil war?
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
One of the biggest wars in the horn before the Italian invasion was the war between Ethiopia and the Somali Kingdom of Adal. According to the Ethiopian chroniclers, the Abyssinian Emperor Lebna Dengel invaded Adal and besides the general pillage, captured the mother of Mohammed Grañ (Grañ means left hand though I don't know if this is Somali or Tigrinya). His mother reputedly said:
"What is the good of having captured me? My capture will be the end of the burning, and your conquest will turn into defeat. My son is a bold, strong man, his heart is ready to fight and his feet are swift to run to war and to shed blood. Verily if you do not send me back, my son shall never rest until he has delivered me from your hands." (from A History of Ethiopia E.A. Wallis Budge)
Mohammed Grañ did come, and assisted with guns and cannons bought from the Turks, pretty much routed the Ethiopians and began invading Ethiopia proper taking most of the country. Lebna Dengel died nearly alone in a monastery with most of his country lost. One thing he and his mother had done though is send multiple requests for aid to the Portuguese. At first these were ignored, but after Lebna Dengel's death an expeditionary force of Portuguese arrived from Goa in India (then a Portuguese colony) led by by Cristophe de Gama, son of the famous explorer Vasco de Gama. Dengel's son Galawdewos was on the throne and received the aid of the well armed Portuguese.
At first the Ethiopian/Portuguese alliance did well but they met a huge defeat where de Gama was captured and executed. The tide turned again though until the Battle of Wagara where the Adalites were routed and Grañ was killed (the Portuguese say it was one of their own, not sure what Ethiopians say). The Ethiopians got their kingdom mostly back and entertained the Portuguese Jesuits for a while (who wanted the Ethiopians to become Catholic and loyal to the Pope) but eventually they got the
See map below for details (yeah it's in Spanish)
Adal at the max of its power
"What is the good of having captured me? My capture will be the end of the burning, and your conquest will turn into defeat. My son is a bold, strong man, his heart is ready to fight and his feet are swift to run to war and to shed blood. Verily if you do not send me back, my son shall never rest until he has delivered me from your hands." (from A History of Ethiopia E.A. Wallis Budge)
Mohammed Grañ did come, and assisted with guns and cannons bought from the Turks, pretty much routed the Ethiopians and began invading Ethiopia proper taking most of the country. Lebna Dengel died nearly alone in a monastery with most of his country lost. One thing he and his mother had done though is send multiple requests for aid to the Portuguese. At first these were ignored, but after Lebna Dengel's death an expeditionary force of Portuguese arrived from Goa in India (then a Portuguese colony) led by by Cristophe de Gama, son of the famous explorer Vasco de Gama. Dengel's son Galawdewos was on the throne and received the aid of the well armed Portuguese.
At first the Ethiopian/Portuguese alliance did well but they met a huge defeat where de Gama was captured and executed. The tide turned again though until the Battle of Wagara where the Adalites were routed and Grañ was killed (the Portuguese say it was one of their own, not sure what Ethiopians say). The Ethiopians got their kingdom mostly back and entertained the Portuguese Jesuits for a while (who wanted the Ethiopians to become Catholic and loyal to the Pope) but eventually they got the
See map below for details (yeah it's in Spanish)
Adal at the max of its power
Merca, Somalia.
Like the Coral design of some Somali architecture.
Merca is the city i hope to one day be able to move to and raise my family. I think some of these pictures were taken before the war, I'm not even from there but to me its probably the most beautiful city in Somalia.
Are you Somali?Merca is the city i hope to one day be able to move to and raise my family. I think some of these pictures were taken before the war, I'm not even from there but to me its probably the most beautiful city in Somalia.
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One of the biggest wars in the horn before the Italian invasion was the war between Ethiopia and the Somali Kingdom of Adal. According to the Ethiopian chroniclers, the Abyssinian Emperor Lebna Dengel invaded Adal and besides the general pillage, captured the mother of Mohammed Grañ (Grañ means left hand though I don't know if this is Somali or Tigrinya). His mother reputedly said:
"What is the good of having captured me? My capture will be the end of the burning, and your conquest will turn into defeat. My son is a bold, strong man, his heart is ready to fight and his feet are swift to run to war and to shed blood. Verily if you do not send me back, my son shall never rest until he has delivered me from your hands." (from A History of Ethiopia E.A. Wallis Budge)
Mohammed Grañ did come, and assisted with guns and cannons bought from the Turks, pretty much routed the Ethiopians and began invading Ethiopia proper taking most of the country. Lebna Dengel died nearly alone in a monastery with most of his country lost. One thing he and his mother had done though is send multiple requests for aid to the Portuguese. At first these were ignored, but after Lebna Dengel's death an expeditionary force of Portuguese arrived from Goa in India (then a Portuguese colony) led by by Cristophe de Gama, son of the famous explorer Vasco de Gama. Dengel's son Galawdewos was on the throne and received the aid of the well armed Portuguese.
At first the Ethiopian/Portuguese alliance did well but they met a huge defeat where de Gama was captured and executed. The tide turned again though until the Battle of Wagara where the Adalites were routed and Grañ was killed (the Portuguese say it was one of their own, not sure what Ethiopians say). The Ethiopians got their kingdom mostly back and entertained the Portuguese Jesuits for a while (who wanted the Ethiopians to become Catholic and loyal to the Pope) but eventually they got the
See map below for details (yeah it's in Spanish)
Adal at the max of its power
These wars pretty much paved the way for the Oromo to swoop in and conquer much of Abyssinia from the Habesha
@Diasporan Royalty you're first on the list when I can rep again..