| French Somaliland Côte française des Somalis الصومال الفرنسي |
||||
| Colony (1896-1946) Overseas territory (1946-1967) |
||||
|
||||
| Location of French Somaliland in 1908 | ||||
| Capital | Djibouti | |||
| Language(s) | French, Arabic | |||
| Religion | Islam, Christianity | |||
| Government | Dependent territory | |||
| Governor | ||||
| - 1896-1899 | Léonce Lagarde | |||
| - 1966-1967 | Louis Saget | |||
| Historical era | New Imperialism | |||
| - Established | May 20, 1896 | |||
| - Italian invasion | June 18, 1940 | |||
| - British occupation | December 28, 1942 | |||
| - Status changed to overseas territory | October 27, 1946 | |||
| - Renamed | July 5, 1967 | |||
| Area | ||||
| - 1963 | 23,200 km2 (8,958 sq mi) | |||
| Population | ||||
| - 1963 est. | 100,000 | |||
| Density | 4.3 /km2 (11.2 /sq mi) | |||
| Currency | French franc (1896-1949) French Somaliland franc (1949-1967) |
|||
| Warning: Value not specified for "common_name" | ||||
French Somaliland (French: Côte française des Somalis, lit. "French Somali Coast", Arabic: الصومال الفرنسي Al-Soumal Al-Fransi) was a French colony in the Horn of Africa. Established after the French signed various treaties between 1883 and 1887 with the then ruling Somali Sultans,[1] the colony lasted from 1896[2] until 1946, when it became an overseas territory of France. In 1967 French Somaliland was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. In 1977 it became the independent country of Djibouti.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||