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Italian East Africa
Italian East Africa former federation of the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and the kingdom of Ethiopia. The federation was formed (1936) to consolidate the administration of the three areas. During the federation's existence, efforts were made to construct road systems and to e... Read more
Rodolfo Graziani
Rodolfo Graziani , 1882-1955, Italian soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in World War I and in Libya (1921-33), he was made (1935) governor of Italian Somaliland. For his part in the Italo-Ethiopian War, he was promoted to marshal and served (1936-37) as viceroy of Ethiopia. Graziani ... Read more
Somalia
Somalia , country (2005 est. pop. 8,591,000), 246,200 sq mi (637,657 sq km), extreme E Africa. It is directly south of the Arabian peninsula across the Gulf of Aden. Somalia comprises almost the entire African coast of the Gulf of Aden and a longer stretch on the Indian Ocean. It is bounded on the N... Read more
Mogadishu
Mogadishu or Mogadisho , Ital. Mogadiscio, city (1990 est. pop. 1,200,000), capital of Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. It is the country's largest city, a port, and a commercial and financial center. Mogadishu has little industry except for food and beverage processing and cotton ginning. Uraniu... Read more
campaigns in North Africa
campaigns in North Africa series of military contests for control of North Africa during World War II. The desert war started in 1940 and for more than two years thereafter seesawed between NE Libya and NW Egypt. The almost uniformly level terrain along the coast allowed tanks and aircraft to play ... Read more
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke , 1827-64, English explorer in Africa. He joined Sir Richard Burton in his expeditions to Somaliland (1854) and to E central Africa (1857-59). Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be a source... Read more
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence (Jean Margaret Laurence), 1926-87, Canadian novelist, b. Manitoba. She lived in Somaliland, Ghana, and England and many of her early works had an African setting. Laurence was particularly concerned with character, and her writings usually focused on women struggling to overcome t... Read more
aardwolf
aardwolf , carnivore of the hyena family. The aardwolf, Proteles cristatus, resembles the true hyena but is smaller and more delicate. It has less powerful teeth and jaws and five instead of four toes on its forepaws. The coat of the aardwolf is yellow-white with dark stripes; a ridge of hair ex... Read more
Djibouti
Djibouti , town (1995 est. pop. 383,000), capital of the Republic of Djibouti, a port on the Gulf of Tadjoura (an inlet of the Gulf of Aden). It is the nation's only sizable town and its administrative center. Its importance results from the large transit trade it enjoys as a terminus of the railroa... Read more
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821-90, English explorer, writer, and linguist. He joined (1842) the service of the East India Company and, while stationed in India, acquired a thorough knowledge of the Persian, Afghan, Hindustani, and Arabic languages. In 1853, in various disguises, he made a famous j... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "British Somaliland"

British Somaliland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II British Somaliland, British East African colony, part of Somalia which had been divided between France (see French Somaliland ), Italy (see Italian Somaliland ), and the UK at the end of...
French Somaliland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II French Somaliland, French East African colony which commanded the strait...had been divided between France, Italy (see Italian Somaliland ), and the UK (see British Somaliland ) at the end of the nineteenth century. After the fall...
Italian Somaliland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Italian Somaliland, Italian colony, part of Somalia, which had been divided between France (see French Somaliland ), Italy, and the UK (see British Somaliland ) at the end of the nineteenth century. Italian forces...
British East Africa
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Division when it was formed in February 1943 out of brigades from British Central Africa (three battalions), British East Africa (fourteen battalions), and British Somaliland (one battalion), to fight in the Burma campaign . Probably as...
Muhammad Abdille Hassan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...stringency finally led the British to evacuate the interior of...subjected to reprisals, and Somaliland lapsed into a state of unparalleled confusion and chaos. The British returned to the Somaliland interior in 1912, but the...
Somalia
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...these forces in 1960, British and Italian Somalilands...day Somalia. French Somaliland chose to remain autonomous...minimal. In Italian Somaliland, 1,265 students...enrolled. Somalis in British Somaliland did not fare better...
place-name changes
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...part of Nigeria, southern area part of United Republic of Cameroon British Guiana Guyana British Honduras Belize British North Borneo Sabah British Somaliland part of Somalia Burma Myanmar Canea Khaniá Canton Guangzhou Carinthia Kä...
World War II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...six weeks they penetrated British Kenya and seized British Somaliland. On 13 September, Italian...On 15 January 1941 the British launched an attack against...Mogadiscio, capital of Italian Somaliland, fell on 26 February, followed...
campaigns in North Africa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...began with the rapid Italian occupation of British Somaliland in Aug., 1940. The first of what was...fighting had earlier resulted in complete British victory; by 1942, Italian and British Somaliland, Eritrea, and Ethiopia were reconquered...
East African campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...occupied the Protectorate of British Somaliland, the first British colony to fall into Axis hands...Patriots as they were called. British strategy for the campaign...attacking Kismayu in Italian Somaliland the same month. It was also...

Dictionary entries related to "British Somaliland"

British Somaliland
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History British Somaliland Former British protectorate near the mouth of the Red Sea. In 1884, during the...protectorate over part of Somali territory. In the Second World War British troops occupied the neighbouring Somali territory, previously controlled...
Somalia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...unification in 1960 of the former British Somaliland Protectorate and the Italian...Front. The SNM proclaimed a Somaliland Republic in the north reviving...briefly succeeded the former British Somaliland protectorate and repudiating...
North African Campaigns
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Italians had occupied parts of the Sudan and British Somaliland, but in January 1941 the British counter-attacked and on 6 April 1941 Ethiopia...March 1941 General ROMMEL attacked, and the British withdrew, leaving TOBRUK besieged. Under...
Hasan, Muhammad Abdille Sayyid
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...nationalist leader, known to the British as the ‘Mad Mullah...destructive of Islamic faith in Somaliland and in 1899 he proclaimed a...four major expeditions by the British, Italians, and Ethiopians...was routed and killed by a British attack in 1920.
Evans, William Harry
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...retired at fifty-five. Apart from the Somaliland Campaign (1903 – 1904) and...reclassify them. He settled near the British Museum (Natural History) in London...the African Hesperiidae... in the British Museum , which, in little more than...
Abyssinian Campaigns
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...During the Italian occupation (1936–41), fighting continued. In 1940 the Italians occupied British Somaliland, but in 1941 British troops evicted the Italians entirely from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia in a four-month campaign...
French empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...with Britain ended with the loss of Quebec and recognition of British supremacy in India. By 1815 only some West Indian Islands...protectorate (1881), and by 1912 MOROCCO , MADAGASCAR , and French Somaliland ( DJIBOUTI ) had been added to FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA and...

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Two British teachers killed in Somaliland by unidentified gunmen
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/21/2003; ; 428 words ; ...have killed two British teachers working for an aid agency in Somaliland, a peace activist...people dedicated to Somaliland and to rebuilding...spokesman for the British Foreign Office confirmed...Western, including British, targets in Somalia...killed in Borama, Somaliland. Annalena ...
2 British teachers killed in Somaliland
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/22/2003; 311 words ; 2 British teachers killed in Somaliland From Journal Sentinel wire reports Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Mogadishu, Somalia -- Two British teachers working for an aid agency in Somaliland were found dead Tuesday after being shot at their...
Two British Teachers Killed in Somaliland
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/21/2003; 292 words ; ...gunmen have killed two British teachers working for an aid agency in Somaliland, a spokesman for the British Foreign Office and...governmental agency. The British spokesman said the...killed in Borama, Somaliland. Annalena Tonelli...
U.N. restricts staff to capital city after unidentified gunmen kill two British teachers in breakaway Somaliland
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/22/2003; 497 words ; ...international recognition. And authorities in Somaliland, the western half of the former British colony of Somaliland, have refused to take part in Somali...reconciliation talks in neighboring Kenya. British Somaliland and Italian colony of Somalia joined...
British aid workers unlawfully killed in Somaliland, inquest rules
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/22/2005; ; 472 words ; ...Worldstream 12-22-2005 Dateline: LONDON Two British aid workers shot dead in Somaliland by a militant gang who believed they were Christian...promoted the foundation of an Islamic state in Somaliland and believed the Eyeingtons were attempting...
Two British teachers working for aid group killed in Somaliland
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 10/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Somalia -- Two British teachers working for an aid agency in Somaliland were found dead...in Somaliland. Somaliland President Dahir...half of a former British colony in the Horn...organization active in Somaliland, agreed. "Coming...he said. The British Foreign Office ...
British headmaster killed by gunmen; Husband and wife shot at Somaliland boarding school.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 10/22/2003; 541 words ; ...gunmen shot dead the British headmaster of a boarding school in Somaliland and his wife, police...aimed at damaging Somaliland, the western half of a former British colony in the Horn...been explained. British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland...
Somaliland Elusive independence
Magazine article from: New African; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...under French dominion. "British Somaliland" (as they used to call...and secondly, by the British re-conquest of Somaliland and the eventual unification...to its previous status as British Somaliland, separate and independent...
Curious case of Somaliland.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/6/2005; 700+ words ; ...known as Somalia. In 1960, British Somaliland was granted independence...countries. Five days after British Somaliland became independent, Italian...was no Somalia state, and Somaliland was under British rule for 80 years. They...
Somaliland: shackled to a failed state.
Magazine article from: Stanford Journal of International Law; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...of Somaliland has emerged. Somaliland has its own democratic government...independent country in 1960. Somaliland's calls for international...ignored. In the words of British Parliamentarian Tony Worthington...builders in the north [i.e., Somaliland]." (2) Unfortunately...