Danane

Danane

Danane

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This article is about the Somali town. For the city in Ivory Coast, see Danané.

Danane (Somali: Danaane, Arabic: دنانه) is a coastal town 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.

History

In the past the Italians set a concentration camp in the town for people that resisted the Italian colonial leaders in Ethiopia. Many Ethiopians were detained in Danane.[1]

Demographics

Danane is the traditional territory and primarily inhabited Bimal clan[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R. (2018-05-29). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume III: Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-02386-5.
  2. [2]
    Lewis, I. M. (1965). The modern history of Somaliland, from nation to state. Internet Archive. New York, F.A. Praeger.

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