So how was Cayn formed......

[AfricaOwn]

I'm tyring to figure this out. Someone try to school me in this.

[Ibtisam]

Cayn the Arabic letter, Cayn the somali town or Cayn as in the eye?

[Som@li]

why do you wanna know? are u from Cayn?

[AfricaOwn]

So this is not some sort of a province like Sool or Sanaag is? Cayn is just a city?

[Som@li]

Ayn on Wiki

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

For Somaliland Cayn region= caynaba district of Sool

for Puntland cayn region= Buhoodle district of togdheere

 

I don't know if for Somaliland it is the arabic letter but for rer sool, sanaag and ayn, that region was called cayn for a long time and the people were called "rer caymed". They moved from Caynaba to the buhoodle area.

[A.J.]

It is a recent phenomena that people have started to call a region around Buuhodle as ''Cayn'', predominantly by the puntland militia to try and stake a claim in the area. before it wasnt use except as a colloquial term.