MERCA
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Merca (Somali: Marka, Arabic: مركة‎) is a port city on the coast of southern Somalia, facing the Indian Ocean. It is the main town in the Lower Shabele region, and is located approximately 70 km (45 miles) southwest of the nation's capital, Mogadishu. The city of Merka was one of several prominent administrative centers in the Ajuuraan Empire. - Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merca)


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BARAWA
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Barawa or Brava (Somali: Baraawe) is a port town on the south-eastern coast of Somalia. The traditional inhabitants are the Tunni Somalis and the Bravanese people, who speak Bravanese, a Swahili dialect. In the 16th century, Barawa, which was then part of the Ajuuraan Empire, was sacked by the Portuguese during the Battle of Barawa but quickly recovered from the attack. - Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barawa)

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Ancient Zeila, the capital of the Kingdom of Ifat and the Empire of Adal.

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Medieval city of Maduna

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Maduna (Somali: Maduuna) is an old Somali city 90 km southward of Erigavo. The structures consist of several hundred drystone buildings and a large retangular mosque whose walls were originally rendered with lime plaster. The city is said to date from the Golden Age of the Adal Sultanate, which was in the 15th and 16th centuries. - Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maduna)


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Merca is awsome, simply beautiful and full of character/history.


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