Mareeg

Mareeg
—  Town  —
Mareeg
Location in Somalia.
Coordinates:
Country  Somalia
Region Galguduud
Time zone EAT (UTC+3)

Mareeg (also known as Mareeg, Mareg, Meregh, Märēg ) Mareeg is a small town in the Galguduud administrative region in central Somalia. It sits at a latitude of 3.7666667° and a longitude of 47.3°.[1]

History

Along with Hobyo and Bosaso, Mareeg developed as a coastal outpost of various Sultanates established by Somali pastoralists between the 15th and 19th centuries. The town was founded in the 16th century, during the period marked by the local ascendancy of the Ajuuraan Empire.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Mareeg, Galguduud, Somalia
  2. ^ Lee V. Cassanelli, The shaping of Somali society: reconstructing the history of a pastoral people, 1600-1900, (University of Pennsylvania Press: 1982), p.75.

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