Baarlamanka Federaalka Soomaaliya

BAARLAMANKA FEDERAALKA SOOMAALIYA From the 7th to the 10th century, Arab and Persian trading posts were established along the coast of present-day Somalia.

Nomadic tribes occupied the interior, occasionally pushing into Ethiopian territory. In the 16th century, Turkish rule extended to the northern coast, and the sultans of Zanzibar gained control in the south. After British occupation of Aden in 1839, the Somali coast became its source of food. The French established a coal-mining station in 1862 at the site of Djibouti, and the Italians planted a s  ...