(JOWHAR): formerly Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi, is the capital town of the Middle Shebelle region of Somalia. The town lies 90 km along a major
road north of the national capital of Mogadishu.
As already stated, the Duca
degli Abruzzi, founded
the Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi in 1920 as an agricultural
settlement in Italian Somali experimenting with new cultivation
techniques. In 1926, the colony comprised 16 villages, with some
3,000 Somali and 200 Italian inhabitants.
