Italian Somaliland
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It was a British protectorate - known as British Somaliland - until it merged with Italian Somaliland in 1960 to form the Somali Republic.
From BBC
Marincola was born in 1923 in Mahaday, a town on the Shebelle River, north of Mogadishu, in what was then known as Italian Somaliland.
From BBC
Did you ever learn in geography class about Italian Somaliland?
From Washington Post
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.
From Washington Post
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.
From Literature
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