Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of eastern Africa comprising present-day Somalia, Djibouti, and southeast Ethiopia. The area was a target of European colonization after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
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- noun A
region of easternAfrica that comprisesSomalia ,Djibouti and parts ofEthiopia . - noun The
unrecognized independent state - Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland.
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Examples
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May it not have been that we once met to burn incense together before the dread god Anubis, or to make offerings upon the altar erected to the great god Ra Hamarkhis; or was it perchance that you, if you are a woman, once waited at the temple gates to see him pass upon his return from the great expedition to the land of Punt, which we call Somaliland to-day?
The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest
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But here in Somaliland, even with the cops and the guns, it seems relatively normal.
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But here in Somaliland, even with the cops and the guns, it seems relatively normal.
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But here in Somaliland, even with the cops and the guns, it seems relatively normal.
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LANGFITT: Dualeh grew up in Somaliland but spent the last two decades working in the energy sector in California.
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LANGFITT: By most measures, Somaliland is an East African success story.
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LANGFITT: Dualeh grew up in Somaliland but spent the last two decades working in the energy sector in California.
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LANGFITT: By most measures, Somaliland is an East African success story.
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LANGFITT: By most measures, Somaliland is an East African success story.
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LANGFITT: Dualeh grew up in Somaliland but spent the last two decades working in the energy sector in California.
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