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Muqdisho (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 02 02 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 2.0333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 045 21 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 45.3500 decimal degrees |
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Note: One of the first Arab settlements on the coast of East Africa; occupied in 1871 by the sultan of Zanzibar who leased the port to Italy in 1892; Italians bought the city in 1905 which became the capital of Italian Somaliland & the Somalia trust territory. |
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| Muqdisho (preferred,C,V)
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| Maqdishu (C,V)
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| Mogadisho (C,V)
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| Mogadishu (C,V)
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| Mukdishu (C,V)
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| Mogadiscio (C,O)
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| Mo-ku-ta-shu (H,O)
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............ | early Chinese |
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Muqdisho (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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since ca. 900 |
| city (C) |
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| national capital (C) |
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since 1960 |
| regional capital (C) |
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| port (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Somalia .......... (nation) |
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(World, Africa) [1000192] |
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