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