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Somali Democratic Republic
Jamhuuriyadda Dimoqraadiga Soomaaliyeed(Somali) الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية(Arabic)
1969–1991
Flag
Coat of arms
Anthem:Soomaaliya Ha Noolaato(Somali) "Somalia will live on"
Capital
Mogadishu
Common languages
Somali Arabic English
Religion
Islam
Government
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic under a totalitarian military dictatorship
President
• 1969–1991
Mohammed Siad Barrea
Vice President
• 1969–1973
Mohamed Ainanshe Guled[1][2]
Historical era
Cold War
• Somali coup d'état
21 October 1969
• Ogaden War
13 July 1977
• Somali Rebellion
10 March 1978
• Somali Civil War
26 January 1991
Area
1972[3]
637,657 km2 (246,201 sq mi)
1977[4]
957,657 km2 (369,753 sq mi)
1991[5]
637,657 km2 (246,201 sq mi)
Population
• 1972[3]
2,941,000
• 1977[4]
6,709,161
Currency
Somali shilling[6] (SOS)
Calling code
252
ISO 3166 code
SO
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Somali Republic
Interim Government of Somalia
Republic of Somaliland
Today part of
Somalia Somalilandb
Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council from 1969–1976 & after 1980.
Somaliland is not internationally recognized. Its territory is considered part of Somalia. Somaliland authorities, however, hold de facto power in the region.
The Somali Democratic Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiya Soomaaliyeed; Arabic: الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية, al-Jumhūrīyah ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah aṣ-Ṣūmālīyah; was the name of the socialist totalitarian military government given to Somalia under President Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, after seizing power in a coup d'état on 21 October 1969.[7][8][9] The coup came a few days after a bodyguard assassinated Abdirashid Shermarke, the nation's second President.[9] Barre's administration ruled Somalia for the next 21 years until Somalia collapsed into civil war in 1991.
^Mogadishu memoir
^Survey of China Mainland Press
^Census, United States Bureau of the (December 23, 1980). "World Population 1979: Recent Demographic Estimates for the Countries and Regions of the World". The Bureau – via Google Books.
^"ТОТАЛЬНАЯ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ ВОЙНА. Недокументальные записки " « Военно-патриотический сайт «Отвага" Военно-патриотический сайт "Отвага"". Archived from the original on 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
^"The 1991 CIA World Factbook" – via Internet Archive.
^la Fosse Wiles, Peter John de (1982). The New Communist Third World: An Essay in Political Economy. Taylor & Francis. p. 1590. ISBN 0-7099-2709-6.
^J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver, The Cambridge history of Africa, Volume 8, (Cambridge University Press: 1985), p.478.
^The Encyclopedia Americana: complete in thirty volumes. Skin to Sumac, Volume 25, (Grolier: 1995), p.214.
^ abMoshe Y. Sachs, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, Volume 2, (Worldmark Press: 1988), p.290.
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