Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed Repubblica Somala الجمهورية الصومالية Al-Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmālīyyah
1960–1969
Flag
Coat of arms
Anthem: Soomaaliya Ha Noolaato (English: "Long live Somalia")
Location of the Somali Republic.
Capital
Mogadishu
Common languages
Somali · Arabic · Italian · English
Religion
Islam
Government
Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
President
• 1960–1967
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
• 1967–1969
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
Prime Minister
• 1960, 1967–1969
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal
• 1960–1964
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
• 1964–1967
Abdirizak Haji Hussein
Legislature
National Assembly
Historical era
Cold War
• Independence
July 1 1960
• Coup d'état
October 21 1969
Area
1961[1]
637,657 km2 (246,201 sq mi)
1969[1]
637,657 km2 (246,201 sq mi)
Population
• 1961[1]
2,027,300
• 1969[1]
2,741,000
Currency
East African shilling (1960–1962) Somalo (1960–1962) Somali shilling (1962–1969)
ISO 3166 code
SO
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Trust Territory of Somaliland
State of Somaliland
Somali Democratic Republic
Today part of
Somalia Somaliland[a]
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History of Somalia
Prehistory
Laas Geel (3,500-2,500 BCE )
Land of Punt (2,500–1,500 BCE)
Ancient
Macrobians
Ancient Somali City-States (c. 1st century)
Azania city-states
(c. 1st century)
Middle Ages
Sultanate of Ifat (940–1415)
Adal Sultanate (1415–1577)
Ajuran Sultanate (13th–17th c.)
Sultanate of Mogadishu (13th–16th c.)
Early modern
Sultanate of the Geledi (17th–1911)
Isaaq Sultanate (1750–1884)
Habr Yunis Sultanate (1769–1907)
Hiraab Imamate (17th–1890)
Khedivate's Somali Coast (1874–1884)
Majeerteen Sultanate (18th–1924)
Sultanate of Hobyo (1876–1926)
Colonial period (1884–1960)
Italian Somaliland (1889–1941)
British Somaliland (1888–1960)
Dervish State (1895–1920)
Trust Territory (1941–1960)
Modern Somalia (since 1960)
Somali Republic (1960-1969)
Mohamed Siad Barre regime (1969–1991)
Somaliland independence (1981–1991)
Interim Government (1991–1997)
Transitional National Government (2000–2004)
Transitional Federal Government (2004–2012)
Federal Government (2012–)
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History of Somaliland
Prehistory
Caves in Somaliland
Laas Gaal (10,000 BC)
Dhambalin (5,000 BC)
Dhaymoole (5,000~3,500 BC)
Ancient
Land of Punt (2500~2000 BC)
Macrobians (525 BC)
Land of the Berbers
Malao • Mosylon
Middle Ages
Kingdom of Adal (9th-12th c.)
Ifat Sultanate (12th-15th c.)
Adal Sultanate (15th-16th c.)
Ethiopian–Adal war
Early modern
Isaaq Sultanate (17th-19th c.)
Habr Yunis Sultanate (18th-19th c.)
Zeila • Berbera • Bulhar
Colonial period (1884–1960)
British Somaliland (1884-1960)
Dervish movement (1884-1920)
Somaliland campaign (1901-1910)
Somaliland campaign (1920)
Burao Tax Revolt (1922)
Italian invasion (1941)
Sheikh Bashir Rebellion (1945)
Modern Somaliland (since 1960)
State of Somaliland (1960)
Somali Republic (1960-1969)
1961 revolt in Somalia
Somali Democratic Republic (1969-1991)
Somaliland War of Independence (1981-1991)
Isaaq genocide (1982-1990)
Peace process (1991)
Declaration of Independence (1991)
Somaliland (1991)
Peace treaties of the Somaliland War of Independence (1991-1997)
Constitutional referendum (2001)
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The Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed; Italian: Repubblica Somala; Arabic: الجمهورية الصومالية, romanized: Al-Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmālīyyah) was the name given to the newly independent state of Somalia, following the unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) and the State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland). A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa Mohamud and Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate administrations, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly and Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President of the Somali Republic. On 22 July 1960, Daar appointed Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister. On 20 July 1961 and through a popular referendum, Somalia ratified a new constitution, which was first drafted in 1960. The new constitution was rejected by Somaliland.[2][3][4]
The administration lasted until 1969, when the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) seized power in a bloodless coup and renamed the country the Somali Democratic Republic.
^ abInternational Demographic Data Center (U.S.), United States Bureau of the Census (1980). World Population 1979: Recent Demographic Estimates for the Countries and Regions of the World. The Bureau. pp. 137-138.
^The Illustrated Library of The World and Its Peoples: Africa, North and East, Greystone Press: 1967, p. 338
^Poore, Brad. "Somaliland: Shackled to a Failed State". Stanford Journal of International Law. (45) 1.
^Ramadane, Zakaria Ousman. “Somalia: State Failure, Poverty and Terrorism.” Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, vol. 6, no. 7, 2014, pp. 13–16. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26351270. Accessed 30 Apr. 2021.
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