French Somaliland

noun

1. a former name (until 1967) of Djibouti

Example Sentences

Also here is a large contingent of French soldiers who stayed on after 1977, when the colony formerly known as French Somaliland gained independence.

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Captain Marchand refused to return to Europe by way of the Nile and Lower Egypt, marching across Abyssinia to Jibuti in French Somaliland, where he embarked for France.

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The colony is bounded inland by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Abyssinia and French Somaliland.

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Neighboring Ethiopia, which contains large numbers of Afars, backs the tribe's cause in French Somaliland.

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Even before the election returns were complete, unruly mobs began to surge through the streets of Djibouti, the sun-bleached and impoverished capital of French Somaliland.

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