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British Protectorate of British Somaliland
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/British_Protectorate_of_British_Somaliland
GPTKB entity
Statements (48)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
British colony
gptkbp:administeredBy
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:area
137,600 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy
gptkb:Ethiopia
gptkb:French_Somaliland
gptkb:Italian_Somaliland
gptkbp:capital
gptkb:Hargeisa
gptkbp:coatOfArms
Coat of arms of British Somaliland
gptkbp:currency
gptkb:East_African_shilling
gptkbp:currentLocation
Somaliland region of Somalia
gptkbp:demonym
Somalilander
gptkbp:disbanded
1960
gptkbp:established
1884
gptkbp:ethnicGroup
Somali
gptkbp:flag
gptkb:Flag_of_British_Somaliland
gptkbp:governmentType
gptkb:province
gptkbp:governor
gptkb:Sir_Douglas_Hall
gptkb:Sir_Geoffrey_Francis_Archer
gptkb:Sir_Gerald_Reece
gptkbp:historicalPeriod
Colonial era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
British Protectorate of British Somaliland
gptkbp:independenceDate
26 June 1960
gptkbp:ISO_3166-2_code
gptkb:BSO
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:Horn_of_Africa
present-day Somaliland
gptkbp:majorCity
gptkb:Erigavo
gptkb:Burao
gptkb:Berbera
gptkb:Borama
gptkbp:mergedInto
gptkb:Somali_Republic
Trust Territory of Somalia
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:World_War_II_Italian_occupation_(1940–1941)
gptkb:Anglo-Somali_treaties
gptkb:Dervish_uprising
gptkbp:officialLanguage
English
Somali
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:British_Empire
gptkbp:population
about 650,000 (1950s)
gptkbp:predecessor
gptkb:Ottoman_Empire
gptkbp:recapturedBy
gptkb:British_forces_(1941)
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Islam
gptkbp:status
defunct
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Somalia
gptkb:State_of_Somaliland
gptkbp:treaty
gptkb:Anglo-Ethiopian_Treaty_(1897)
Anglo-Italian boundary agreement (1894)
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:British_Protectorate
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7