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The city of Mogadishu is made up of around twenty different districts. Xamar Weyne (also referred to as "Hamarhoum" in a 1889 book called "The Earth and its Inhabitants: Africa" by Elisee Reclus) is one of the oldest districts, dating back to the 9th or tenth centuries A.D. (Mogadishu: Images of the Past). Xamar Weyne is recognisable because it has irregular streets that indicate it is older than the straight and wider streets that were developed "by the Italian colonial administration between 1900 and 1934" (Mogadishu: Images from the Past).