WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Somalia was colonized by European powers in the 19th century. Britain and Italy established the colonies of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland in 1884 and 1889, respectively. These two Somali lands eventually united and gained independence on July 1, 1960.

Detailed explanation-2: -Colonialism: 1840-1960 Between 1840 and 1886, the British East India Company established a series of trade treaties with various Somali chiefs. Italy also had a hand in the early establishment of Somalia and marked out the boundaries of Italian Somaliland in the south between 1897 and 1908.

Detailed explanation-3: -British colonized the north-west of Somalia to produce more food supplies for the British. In 1887 the British set up a Protectorate over Somaliland. The French colonized small parts of the Somali Coast. The French colony became French territory in 1946 and the country of Djibouti in 1977.

Detailed explanation-4: -French Somaliland (French: Côte française des Somalis, lit. ‘French Coast of the Somalis’ Somali: Xeebta Soomaaliyeed ee Faransiiska) was a French colony in the Horn of Africa. It existed between 1884 and 1967, at which time it became the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas.