Baardheere
Baardheere ( Somali for "large palm", from baar palm and dheere long / large / high; also written Bardera , Bardhere , Bārđēre or Bardeera ) is a city in southwest Somalia . It is located inland on the Jubba River - which flows through the city - in the Gedo region , near the border with Kenya . Baardheere has about 32,000 inhabitants belonging to various Somali clans, including Ajuran , Rahanweyn and various subclans of the Darod .
The city is considered a center of Islamic education. In the first half of the 19th century a sheikh of Baardheere led a jihad by banning tobacco and folk dances from 1819 and requiring women to wear face veils. He also forbade the ivory trade because the elephant is an unclean animal ( haram ). From the 1830s this jihad took on expansionist traits, which led to the conflict with the Geledi Sultanate, which was then the leading power in southern Somalia. In 1843 the Sultan finally had the fortified city of Baardheere besieged by 40,000 warriors and then burned down. The large palm, after which the city was named and which still stood, was felled on the orders of the Sultan. The residents fled or were killed. The site remained uninhabited for twenty years, until a sheikh from the Eelay clan founded Baardheere.
After the outbreak of the Somali civil war in 1991, the city grew rapidly due to the influx of internally displaced people and became the location of “hunger camps” during the famine in the early 1990s . Many displaced persons and residents later fled to Kenya.
In 2008, Islamists took control of Baardhere. On July 22, 2015, regular Somali and African Union forces occupied the city.
In the area, agriculture is carried out at Jubba. At Baardheere, the construction of a large dam was planned, which is to expand the cultivation area by 30 percent.
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- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (calculation 2008)
- ^ Ioan Lewis: Understanding Somalia and Somaliland . 2008, ISBN 978-1-85065-898-6 , p. 19
- ↑ Baardheere Jihad 1843 ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Digil-Mirifle.com
- ^ Weapons Banned from Somali Town . ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Insidesomalia.org, Shabelle Media Network
- ↑ Somalia's al-Shabab loses key Bardere stronghold. BBC News, July 22, 2015, accessed July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Somalia: Agriculture ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 2 ° 20 ' N , 42 ° 17' E