British Somaliland
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British Somaliland, officially the Somaliland Protectorate, was a protectorate of the United Kingdom in the territory of modern Somaliland. It was bordered by Italian Somalia, French Somali Coast, and
Somali warriors board British naval batilla
Aerial view of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's main fort in Taleh, the capital of his Dervish movement
Market in Hargeisa
Mohamoud Ali Shire Sultan of the Warsangali clan
Nur Ahmed Aman
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Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman, was a learned religious leader and the 5th Sultan of the Habr Yunis Sultanate and later also one of the leaders behind the Somali Dervish movement and revolt.
Sultan Nur (centre) in the Tuuyo plains (1896)
Sultan Nur's genealogy
Lieutenant colonel Sir James Hayes Sadler KCMG CB FRGS (11 October 1851 – 21 April 1922)
Sheywal Abdi, Habr Awal tribe, a poet and a dervish commander who defected to the English side after a fallout with Sultan Nur, 1905. The dervish murdered his two wives and six children and in retaliation he killed 23 dervishes for revenge