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Bargal

Bargal is a coastal town in the Bari region of Puntland in north-eastern Somalia, on the Indian Ocean south of Cape Guardafui. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was one of the residences of the boqors of the Majeerteen Sultanate, until the Italian conquest of the sultanate in the 1920s. The surrounding coast was long known for frankincense.

Bargal
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Majeerteen Sultanate

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bargal. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bargal
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