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British Mandate for Somaliland
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/British_Mandate_for_Somaliland
GPTKB entity
Statements (28)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:historical_region
gptkbp:administeredBy
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:British_Somaliland
gptkbp:area
137,600 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy
gptkb:Ethiopia
gptkb:French_Somaliland
gptkb:Italian_Somaliland
gptkbp:capital
gptkb:Hargeisa
gptkbp:currency
gptkb:East_African_shilling
gptkbp:dissolved
1960
gptkbp:established
1884
gptkbp:event
gptkb:Anglo-Italian_Somaliland_border_agreement
gptkb:Dervish_resistance
gptkb:World_War_II_Italian_occupation_(1940–1941)
gptkbp:flag
gptkb:Flag_of_British_Somaliland
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
British Mandate for Somaliland
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:Horn_of_Africa
gptkbp:mergedInto
Trust Territory of Somaliland (Italian Somaliland) to form Somalia (1960)
gptkbp:officialLanguage
English
Somali
gptkbp:population
about 650,000 (1950s)
gptkbp:predecessor
Somali territories under Ottoman and Egyptian control
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Islam
gptkbp:restored
British control (1941)
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Somalia
gptkb:State_of_Somaliland
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:British_Mandate_period
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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