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Mogadishu ( / ˌ m ɔː ɡ ə ˈ d iː ʃ uː / ; Somali : Muqdisho ; Arabic : مقديشو Maqadīshū ), known locally as Xamar ( English : Hamar ), is the largest and capital city of Somalia . Located in the coastal Banaadir region on the Indian Ocean , the city has served as an important port for centuries. As of 2015, it has a population of 2,120,000 residents.
Tradition and old records assert that southern Somalia, including the Mogadishu area, was historically inhabited by hunter-gatherers . These were later joined by Cushitic agro-pastoralists, who would go on to establish local aristocracies. During its medieval Golden Age , Mogadishu was ruled by the Muzaffar dynasty , a vassal of the Ajuran Sultanate . It subsequently fell under the control of an assortment of local Sultanates and polities, most notably the Geledi Sultanate . The city later became the capita
Mogadishu , or Mogadiscio , was the capital of Italian Somalia in the first half of the 20th century. In Italian language , the city was called Mogadiscio italiana and the inhabitants were called Mogadiscini . Italian Mogadiscio was under Italian control from 1885 until February 1941: officially it disappeared in 1947 after the "Peace Treaty" following WWII when Italy lost all the colonies.