 Mogadishu traditionally served as a commercial and financial centre . Before the importation of mass @-@ produced cloth from Europe and America , the city 's textiles were forwarded far and wide throughout the interior of the continent , as well as to the Arabian peninsula and as far as the Persian coast . 
 Mogadishu traditionally served as a commercial and financial centre . Before the importation of mass @-@ produced cloth from Europe and America , the city <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>textiles <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> forwarded far and wide throughout the interior of the continent , as well as to the Arabian peninsula and as far as the Persian coast . 
Mogadishu traditionally served as a commercial and financial centre . Before the importation of mass @-@ produced cloth from Europe and America , da city  textiles was forwarded far and wide throughout tdainterior of the continent , as well as to the Arabian peninsula and as far as thdaersian coast .