Baidoa
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Baidoa Baydhabo بيدوا |
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Baidoa
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 Baidoa
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| Coordinates: 3°07′00″N 43°39′00″E / 3.11667°N 43.65000°ECoordinates: 3°07′00″N 43°39′00″E / 3.11667°N 43.65000°E | |
| Country |
 Somalia
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| Region | Bay |
| District | Baidoa |
| Government | |
| • Type | South West State of Somalia |
| • Mayor | Mr. Abdullahi Ali Watiin |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 227,761 |
| Time zone | EAT (UTC+3) |
| Area code(s) | +25261 |
Baidoa (Somali: Baydhabo), is capital in the southwestern Bay region of Somalia.During the Middle Ages, Baidoa and its surrounding area was part of the Ajuran Sultanate. in 2005 Transitional Federal Government established temporary headquarters in Baidoa before an eventual relocation of government offices to Mogadishu.
In 2012, it was made the capital of the Southwestern State of Somalia, a prospective Federal Member State.
[[File:Muzzaffar (Mogadishu area) flag according to 1576 Portuguese map Baidoa and the broader Bay region is home to a number of important ancient sites. Archaeologists have found pre-historic rock art on the city's outskirts, in Buur Heybe.
During the Middle Ages, Baidoa and its surrounding area was part of the The influential polity covered much of southern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, with its domain extending from Mareeg in the north, to Qelafo in the west, to Kismayo in the south.
In the early modern period, the Baidoa area was ruled by the Geledi Sultanate. The kingdom was eventually incorporated into Italian Somaliland in 1908, and ended in 1910 with the death of its last Sultan Osman Ahmed. After independence in 1960, the city was made the center of the official Baidoa District.
Baidoa later incurred significant damage in the early 1990s, following the start of the civil war. In September 1995, United Somali Congress militia attacked and occupied the town. They remained in control of Baidoa until around January 1996, while the local Rahanweyn Resistance Army militia continued to engage the USC in the town's environs. In 1999, the RRA seized control of the wider Bay and Bakool provinces. The town and larger region gradually rebounded to become among the more stable areas in the south.
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