Somaliland (disambiguation)

Somaliland ( Somali: Soomaaliland ) denotes

  • The de facto independent northern part of Somalia, see Somaliland
  • Historically in the entire Germanic languages ​​inhabited by Somali territory in the Horn of Africa

Then the following colonial territories were called in colonial times:

  • Italian Somaliland, the south and east of present-day Somalia
  • British Somaliland, the northern part of present-day Somalia and Somaliland partly inhabited by Somali northeastern Kenya
  • At the time of the early colonization of the whole, which is under suzerainty of Zanzibar East African coast was called Somaliland; therefore came first names such as " Portuguese Somaliland " ( for today's Mozambique), "Russian Somaliland " (for a brief attempt at colonization in Sagallo ) and " German Somaliland " ( for now Tanzania and for German - Somali coast) on. The term " Portuguese Somaliland " dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, when Portugal actually controlled the entire East African coast of Somalia in the north to Mozambique in the south.
  • Disambiguation
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