Editing Mogadishu (section)

====Mogadishu Sultanate====
[[File:Mogadishan currency.JPG|thumb|right|100px|[[Mogadishu currency|Mogadishan currency]]]]
The Mogadishu Sultanate was a [[History of Somalia#Medieval|medieval]] [[Somalis|Somali]] sultanate centered in southern [[Somalia]]. It rose as one of the pre-eminent powers in the [[Horn of Africa]] under the rule of Fakhr ad-Din before becoming part of the expanding [[Ajuran Sultanate|Ajuran Empire]] in the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abdurahman |first=Abdillahi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1dDDwAAQBAJ&q=mogadishu+ajuran+province&pg=PA62 |date=25 February 2003 |title=Making Sense of Somali History |volume=1 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-1-909112-79-7 |language=en |access-date=6 November 2020 |archive-date=29 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329041026/https://books.google.com/books?id=X1dDDwAAQBAJ&q=mogadishu+ajuran+province&pg=PA62 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Mogadishu Sultanate maintained a vast trading network, dominated the regional [[gold]] trade, minted its own [[Mogadishu currency|currency]], and left an extensive architectural legacy in present-day southern Somalia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=Everett |title=The Muslim Diaspora (Volume 2, 1500–1799): A Comprehensive Chronolog |date=1 July 2000 |publisher=Mcfarland |page=49 |isbn=9781476608891 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSYkCQAAQBAJ&q=military+assistance+sultanate+of+mogadishu+adal&pg=PA49 |access-date=22 January 2017 |archive-date=29 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329041024/https://books.google.com/books?id=kSYkCQAAQBAJ&q=military+assistance+sultanate+of+mogadishu+adal&pg=PA49 |url-status=live }}</ref> A local city-state with much influence over the hinterland neighbouring coastal towns.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge history of Africa, volume 3 |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory03fage |access-date=7 August 2020 |via=Internet Archive |year=1975 |isbn=9780521209816 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/the-sultanates-of-somalia/ |title=The Sultanates of Somalia {{!}} World Civilization |website=courses.lumenlearning.com |access-date=2 February 2019 |archive-date=3 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203065252/https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/the-sultanates-of-somalia/ |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:Coral house mogadishu.JPG|thumb|170px|right|Entrance of a [[coral]] stone house in Mogadishu]]
For many years Mogadishu functioned as the pre-eminent city in the {{lang|ar|بلد البربر}} (''Bilad al Barbar'' – "Land of the [[Berber people|Berbers]]"), as medieval Arabic-speakers named the Somali coast.<ref>{{Cite book|editor1-last=Elfasi|editor1-first=M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tw0Q0tg0QLoC&pg=PA600|title=Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century|editor2-last=Hrbek|editor2-first=Ivan|author=Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa|date=1988|publisher=UNESCO|isbn=978-92-3-101709-4|page=600|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=6 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064015/https://books.google.com/books?id=tw0Q0tg0QLoC&pg=PA600|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ''The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama'', (Cambridge University Press: 1998), p. 121.</ref><ref>J. D. Fage, Roland Oliver, Roland Anthony Oliver, ''The Cambridge History of Africa'', (Cambridge University Press: 1977), p. 190.</ref><ref>[[George Wynn Brereton Huntingford]], Agatharchides, ''The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: With Some Extracts from Agatharkhidēs "On the Erythraean Sea"'', (Hakluyt Society: 1980), p. 83.</ref> Following his visit to the city, the 12th-century [[Syria]]n historian [[Yaqut al-Hamawi]] (a former slave of Greek origin) wrote a global history of many places he visited Mogadishu and called it the richest and most powerful city in the region and was an Islamic center across the [[Indian Ocean]].<ref>Roland Anthony Oliver, J. D. Fage, ''Journal of African history, Volume 7'', (Cambridge University Press.: 1966), p. 30.</ref><ref>I.M. Lewis, ''A modern history of Somalia: nation and state in the Horn of Africa'', 2nd edition, revised, illustrated, (Westview Press: 1988), p. 20.</ref>
[[File:Muzzaffar (Mogadishu area) flag according to 1576 Portuguese map.svg|thumb|left|Flag of the Mogadishu area according to a 1576 map by [[Fernão Vaz Dourado]]]]
[[File:Ancient-Almnara.jpg|thumb|right|Almnara Tower, Mogadishu]]