Region of Somali-speaking peoples in E Africa
including the former British Somaliland
Protectorate (established 1887) and Italian
Somaliland (made a colony 1927, conquered by
Britain 1941 and administered by Britain
until 1950) -- which both became independent
1960 as the Somali Democratic Republic, the
official name for Somalia -- and former
French Somaliland, which was established
1892, became known as the Territory of the
Afars and Issas 1967, and became independent
as Djibouti 1977.