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The modern City Market is located very close to the Fakhr al-Din Mosque (Mogadishu: Images from the Past). Around the year 900 A.D., when Arab merchants first began colonizing the area, goods such as "cinnamon, porcelain, frankincense, tortoise-shall, and "slaves of the better sort" were traded at the market in Mogadishu (The Invention of Somalia). The Suq is still an important part of the Mogadishi economy and culture, but the closeby gun market of Mogadishu is one of the most dangerous places in the city (Mogadishu: Images from the Past).