EthiopiaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
3 SHARED EVENTSSomalia

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · ETH LEFT · SOM RIGHT

1. 1529–1543

   Wars of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi

   From the Adal Sultanate, Imam Ahmad 'Gurey' launches the Futuh al-Habasha campaigns against Christian Ethiopia, conquering much of the highlands before his defeat and death in 1543 with Portuguese intervention.

   War & Rupture · from the Somalia chronicle · Islam, the Coastal City-States and the Adal Sultanate · REFS 3 — Somalia: A Country Study, Adal Sultanate, Ethiopian–Adal War

2. 1936

   Italian Somaliland joins Italian East Africa

   After Fascist Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland is merged into the new colony of Italian East Africa; Britain takes control of the region during the Second World War, holding both Somalilands by 1941.

   Colonisation · from the Somalia chronicle · Colonial Partition and the Dervish Resistance · REFS 2 — Italian Somaliland, Somalia (country and history)

3. 1977–1978

   The Ogaden War

   Somalia invades Ethiopia to annex the Somali-inhabited Ogaden; initial gains are reversed in 1978 when the Soviet Union and Cuba back Ethiopia, inflicting a costly defeat on Somalia.

   War & Rupture · from the Somalia chronicle · Independence, Union and the Siad Barre Era · REFS 2 — Mohamed Siad Barre, History of Somalia