This city is the capital in the southwestern Bay region of Somalia.Baidoa and the broader Bay region is home to a number of important ancient sites. You can come BAIDOA city tourArchaeologists have found pre-historic rock art on the city’s outskirts, in Buur Heybe.During the Middle Ages, Baidoa and its surrounding area was part of the Ajuran empire that governed much of southern Somalia and eastern Ethopia, with its domain extending from Hobyo in the north, to Qelafo in the west, to Kismayo in the south.In the early modern period, the Baidoa area was ruled by the Geledi sultanate. The kingdom was eventually incorporated into Italian Somaliland protectorate in 1910 after the death of its last Sultan Osman Ahmed in 1910.