Information
Name: Somaliland campaign
Type: Event
Start: 1902
End: 1920
Parents: World War I African Theatre
Somaliland campaign: All Data
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Was a long guerrilla conflict which took place between 1900 and 1920 in the territories corresponding to present-day Somalia and in the border areas between Somalia and present-day Ethiopia. The Somali Islamist leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan succeeded in uniting various clans and tribes in his country in a unitary movement of opposition to Italian and British colonial rule.