Danane
title: "Danane" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-lower-shebelle"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-lower-shebelle" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danane" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Danane (, ) is a coastal town in the southern Lower Shebelle province of Somalia. It is located approximately 109 km 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.
Demographics
Danane is the traditional territory and primarily inhabited Bimal clan
References
References
- (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.
- Lewis, I. M.. (1965). "The modern history of Somaliland, from nation to state". New York, F.A. Praeger.
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