9 History of Somaliland

The history of Somaliland, a country in the eastern Horn of Africa bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Aden, and the East African land mass, begins with human habitation tens of thousands of years ago. It includes the civilizations of Punt, the Ottomans, and colonial influences from Europe and the Middle East.

The State of Somaliland was a short-lived independent country in the territory of present-day Somaliland. It was the name assumed by the former British Somaliland protectorate in the five days between June 26, 1960 and July 1, 1960, when the territory prepared for union as scheduled with the Trust Territory of Somaliland under Italian Administration to form the Somali Republic, the first incarnation of modern-day Somalia.

British Somaliland, officially the British Somaliland Protectorate, was a British protectorate in present-day Somaliland. For much of its existence, the territory was bordered by Italian Somaliland, French Somaliland and Ethiopia.

Postage stamps and postal history of British Somaliland

Originally mail from British Somaliland used postage stamps of Egypt, then India. In 1903, about 30 types of stamps of India were overprinted "BRITISH / SOMALILAND".

Hussein Hasan was a famous Somali poet and warrior of the Eidagale Isaaq clan known for his skills in battle and hot temper.

The Puntland–Somaliland dispute is a territorial dispute over the northern Somali provinces of Sool, Sanaag and Ayn (Khatumo-SSC) between the self-declared Republic of Somaliland and the Puntland state of Somalia.

The Somali National Movement was one of the first and most important organized guerilla groups opposed to the Siad Barre regime in the 1980s to the 1990s. The organisation was founded in London, England, on April 6, 1981 by Hassan Isse Jama, Abdirahman Abdulkadir Farah, Omar Elmi Dihood, Ahmed Ismail Abdi ‘Duksi’, Abdisalam Yasin Mohamed, Mohamed Hashi Elmi, and Hasan Adam 'Wadadi', a former Somali diplomat, who stated that the group's purpose was to overthrow the Siad Barre regime.

The Somaliland Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on 18 May 1991 by Somali Sultans from the Isaaq, Dhulbahante, Issa, Gadabursi, Warsangali clans and Somali National Movement. Chairman of the SNM, and soon to be first President of Somaliland which came from the independence it gained on 26 June 1960 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Sultanate of Ifat, or Awfat was a medieval Somali Muslim state in the eastern regions of the Horn of Africa between the late 13th century and early 15th century. Led by the Walashma dynasty, it was centered in the ancient city of Zeila. The kingdom ruled over parts of what are now eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somaliland.