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Berbera replaces Zeila as the northern hub …

Years: 1540 - 1683
Berbera replaces Zeila as the northern hub of Islamic influence in the Horn of Africa.

By the middle of the sixteenth century, Saylac and Berbera have become dependencies of the sharifs of Mecca and in the seventeenth century pass to the Ottoman Turks, who exercise authority over them through locally recruited Somali governors.