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Somalia, c. 1902. Map of northeastern Africa, with British Somaliland (as British Somali Coast Protectorate) and part of Italian Somaliland shown in the lower right corner, as depicted in the 10th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1902. (more) Italy had thus acquired a Somali colony.
Jan 25, 2024 · Somaliland’s history as a distinct region of Somalia dates back to the late nineteenth century. The territory was a British protectorate until 1960, when it unified with the rest of present-day...
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May 7, 2021 · Somaliland gained independence on June 26th and the rest of Somalia on July 1st, 1960. On July 1, they united to form the Republic of Somalia. The new state had to overcome considerable challenges to harmonize the different administrative traditions and to balance power between various clans.
Jun 25, 2019 · At the turn of the 19 th century, when the Ottoman Empire weakened was on the brink of collapse, Egypt which was a vassal of the Ottoman, Empire occupied the western parts of Somaliland. Following the British occupation of Aden in 1839 and after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the expansion of the British Empire was brought to the ...
Jan 24, 2024 · They ran Somaliland and Somalia under the same administration until 1950, when the UN gave Somalia back to Italy (which became known as the Trusteeship of Somaliland). Meanwhile, Somaliland remained with the British, under the understanding that the two would become independent within 10 years.
In 1960 it was united with the former British Somaliland, and the two became the independent Republic of Somalia. For decades the country suffered political and civil strife, including military dictatorship, civil war, insurgencies, drought, and famine, and, beginning in the early 1990s, it was without an effective central government.
On 1 July 1960, five days after the former British Somaliland protectorate obtained independence as the State of Somaliland, the territory united with the Trust Territory of Somaliland to form the Somali Republic, albeit within boundaries drawn up by Italy and Britain.
