Bimal elders on board the Marco Polo, in 1907

Picture title: “Nel Benadir.-I capi indigeni Bimal a bordo della regia nave italiana Marco Polo (fot. invitaci da Mogadiscio)”

Italian Navy visit to Mogadishu in 1907

Picture title: “Nel Benadir. – Rivista degli acari passata in Mogadiscio, in onoro degli ufficiali della regia nave Marco Polo“.

Fro an Italian newspaper dated 1907

Somalia Italiana: Mogadiscio

pianta con piano regolatore, credo del 1915 del Gov.Gandolfi

Source website: http://digilander.libero.it/capurromrc/!07mogadiscio.html

Djibouti – Poste de Police – Place Menelick

Place Menelik, then (above) and now (below)

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Trasporti somali

Somali playing draughts

Mogadiscio – Pozzo e Moschea

“Mogadisco (Banadir) Veduta di Amuruini”

Postcard, circa 1905. The dark building in the middle of the photograph, but distant, may be the Sultan of Oman’s fort, known as the Garessa. The white building with 14 arches may what was called “La Governatore”, the centre of be the Italian colonial administration.