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| Country |  Somalia |
| Region | Lower Shebelle |
| Capital | Merca |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Merca District (Somali : Degmada Merka) is a district of the southeastern Lower Shebelle (Shabeellaha Hoose) region in Somalia. Its capital lies at Merca.
Merca | |
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| Country | Somalia |
| Region | Lower Shebelle |
| Capital | Merca |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Merca District (Somali : Degmada Merka) is a district of the southeastern Lower Shebelle (Shabeellaha Hoose) region in Somalia. Its capital lies at Merca.
Lower Shabelle is an administrative region (gobol) in southern Somalia.
Banaadir is a State in Southeastern regions Somalia. Mogadishu, It is bordered by SouthWest State to the South, HirShabeelle, to the North, the Indian Ocean, Mogadisho, the Capital City of Banaadir is the Largest in the State and the Largest of the Country, with over 4.5 million residents
Somalia is a federal republic consisting of five federal states as well as the Banadir Regional Administration (BRA) and the claimed territory of Somaliland. Somalia is further subdivided into thirteen administrative regions, and five claimed regions which are in turn subdivided into districts.
Sharif is a traditional Arabic title. The origin of the word is an adjective meaning "noble", "highborn". The feminine singular is sharifa(h) or shareefa(h). The masculine plural is Ashraf or shurafā' (شُرَفاء) or chorfa in the Maghreb.
Merca is an ancient port city in the southern Lower Shebelle province of Somalia. It is located approximately 109 km (68 mi) to the southwest of the nation's capital Mogadishu. Merca is the traditional home territory of the Bimal clan and was the center of the Bimal Revolt or Merka Revolt.
The Garre tribe is a major Somali clan whose origins trace back to Samaale who traces the lineage from the Arabian Peninsula through Aqiil Abu Talib. The Garre clan are considered to belong to the Digil clan family hence sub-clan of Digil-Rahanweyn clan of Rahanweyn Somali clan but genealogically descend from Gardhere Samaale.
Somalia is officially divided into thirteen administrative regions and five claimed but uncontrolled regions in Somaliland. These are in turn subdivided into seventy-two districts and eighteen claimed but uncontrolled districts in Somaliland.
Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery. Although he had many contacts, none of them developed the disease, and an aggressive containment campaign was successful in preventing an outbreak. Smallpox was declared to have been eradicated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) two years later. Maalin was subsequently involved in the successful poliomyelitis eradication campaign in Somalia, and he died of malaria while carrying out polio vaccinations after the re-emergence of the poliovirus in 2013.
The Ajuran Empire, also spelled Ajuuraan Empire, and often simply as Ajuran, was a Somali empire in the medieval times in the Horn of Africa that dominated the trade in northern Indian ocean. They belonged to the Somali Muslim sultanate that ruled over large parts of the Horn of Africa in the Middle Ages. Through a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuran Empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow and the Ajuran-Portuguese wars. Trading routes dating from the ancient and early medieval periods of Somali maritime enterprise were strengthened or re-established, and foreign trade and commerce in the coastal provinces flourished with ships sailing to and coming from many kingdoms and empires in East Asia, South Asia, Europe, the Near East, North Africa and East Africa.
The following is an index of Somalia-related articles.
The Banaadiri people are a nationality in Somalia. Banaadiris largely inhabit Somalia's southern coastline.
The Bimaal or Bimal, is a sub-clan of the major Dir clan family. This clan is widely known for leading a resistance against the colonials in southern Somalia for decades which can be compared to the war of the Sayyid in Somaliland. The Biimaal mainly lives in Southern Somalia, the Somali region of Ethiopia, which their Gaadsen sub-clan mainly inhabits and in the NEP region of Kenya.
Heegan FC is a Somali football club based in Horseed, a district of Merca.
Somali architecture is the engineering and designing of multiple different construction types such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, temples, aqueducts, lighthouses, towers and tombs during the ancient, medieval and early modern periods in Somalia and other regions inhabited by Somalis, as well as the fusion of Somalo-Islamic architecture with Western designs in contemporary times.
MV al-Marjan was a cargo vessel active in the Horn of Africa. It was involved in relief efforts, and delivered food commodities from Dar es Salaam to Kismayu and Merca in March 2007.
Bu'ale or Bu'aale is an agricultural city located in Middle Juba region of Somalia and the capital city of Jubaland state of Somalia.
The Port of Merca, also known as Merca Port, is the official seaport of Merca, situated in southeastern Somalia. It is classified as a jetty class port. It has a harbour as well as a pier which juts into the Somali Sea.
The Surre, is a central and southern Somalia clan. A subclan of the major Somali Dir clan and live in Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Vittorio di Africa was a small town in southern Italian Somalia, created by Italian colonists in the late 1920s near the southern Shebelle river.
The Reer Manyo are confederacy of clans based in the southern coast of Somalia, primarily in the cities of Mogadishu and Merca and the towns and villages between them.
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