Italian Somaliland

noun

1. a former Italian colony and trust territory in E Africa: now part of the Democratic Somali Republic.

Italian Somaliland

noun

1. a former Italian colony in E Africa, united with British Somaliland in 1960 to form the independent republic of Somalia

Example Sentences

Marincola was born in 1923 in Mahaday, a town on the Shebelle River, north of Mogadishu, in what was then known as Italian Somaliland.

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Did you ever learn in geography class about Italian Somaliland?

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I know I didn’t, perhaps for the good reason that in 1936 — a year after the Mapparium opened — Italian Somaliland merged with Italian Eritrea and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire to become Italian East Africa.

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He explained that many of the countries, like Siam and Italian Somaliland, no longer existed in the same way; the names had changed by now.

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Somaliland enjoyed five days of independence from Britain in 1960, before forming Somalia in a union with Italian Somaliland.

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