AN INTERACTIVE ATLAS OF SOMALI HISTORY

2,500 years of Somali history. One living map.

2,500 sano oo taariikhda Soomaalida ah, hal khariidad oo nool.

Drag the timeline from the Periplus to the present. Sultanates rise, borders move, cities change hands, and every claim on the map is tied to a source you can check.

The Xasuuso Atlas map in 1960: the trust territory, the protectorate and their neighbours drawn in colour, with the timeline set to independence year — **1960.** Trusteeship in the south, a protectorate in the north. Two territories move toward one flag.

PLACES

Every city keeps a dossier.

Open Mogadishu in the year 1450 and read the city through time: founded around 1100, minting its own coins by 1269, Ibn Battuta's "town of endless size" in 1331, then the Portuguese, the colonies, the republic. Dated, sourced, and drawn on the map beside it.

Zeila, Berbera, Harar, Kismayo and two hundred more, each with its own history, monuments and names.

The Mogadishu dossier open beside the map in 1450: overview, a dated city-through-time feed, and the Ajuran Sultanate drawn on the coast

The Battle of Gumburu animation mid-play: 224 men forming a defensive square in a clearing ringed by dense bush, April 1903

EVENTS

Some history needs motion.

Gumburu, April 1903. A British column of 224 men is led into a clearing ringed by dense bush, and forms a square. Press play and watch how the morning went.

More than 260 events sit on the timeline, from Hatshepsut's expedition to Punt to this decade, and the major battles are animated beat by beat.

BUILDINGS

Explore old buildings as if you were there.

The Fakhr ad-Din Mosque was raised in Mogadishu in 1269 and still stands. The record describes its marble doorways, the five-bay portico and the dome on its octagonal drum, so we tried to rebuild every part of it. We make some assumptions so treat it as a living reconstruction: improving as corrections and evidence reach us. Walk in through the courtyard and stand under the dome.

First person, on any phone, with more buildings across the Somali world to come.

First-person view outside the rebuilt Fakhr ad-Din Mosque of 1269: whitewashed coral-stone walls, three framed doorways, the fluted cone and dome behind the parapet, and the minaret against a clear sky

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PLACES

100

POLITIES & STATES

269

EVENTS

LANGUAGES

In the database today, growing weekly. The whole atlas reads in English iyo af-Soomaali.

The atlas is open.

Atlasku waa furan yahay.