(Ta)Rim: Gezira = Jazeera and the two Xariim islands.
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The two authors who mention (Ta)Rim are:
- Al Firuzabadi: Qamus al Muhit (The Ocean) (d1414) Persia.
- Al-Saghani: al-Takmila wa'l-dhayl wa'l-sila (Supplement to the book of the crown of the language ) (d1252) Baghdad.
They both write: (Ta)Rim: Two places, one: in the Arab countries, and the other: near Makdosh
Taken from: The Origins and Development of Mogadishu AD 1000 to 1850 by Ahmed Dualeh Jama.
In Gezeira, Chittick (1969, p. 117-8) reported a site with imported pottery types. The imported blue-glazed Sasanian-Islamic and Islamic White-tin-glazed bowls, were dated to the ninth and tenth centuries.
In 1988 two teams from Sweden found pottery and other artifacts that are datable to the tenth and fifteenth centuries. These sites also provided evidence of trading contacts in the form of imported pottery of Chinese, Arabian and Persian origin. In the second of 12 trenches situated 200 m east of Gezeira village, up on a raised coral reef near the seashore. Among local potsherds, bones and shells one piece of imported, blue-on white Chinese pottery was recovered. The Gezeira 11 site is also called Nimow and covers a small, off-shore island. A ruined mosque and wall are located there. The material found included local pottery and a lot of imported pieces (18th-19th century?).
