The Federal Republic of Somalia is a country on the horn of Africa. Its Capital city is Mogadishu. The European scrabble for Africa in the late 1800's inspired the dervish leader Muhammad Abdullah Hassan to unite the different tribes in the area now called Somalia. He continued to resist British and Italian colonial interests until 1920, when an intensive aerial bombardment collapsed the Dervish state. The land was divided between Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland. after WWII the territories were returned to their respective colonial powers. both territories gained independence in 1960 and became Somalia.1969 saw a military coup d'etat which brought in a communist one-party government. 1991 saw the communist government ousted and the north (formerly British) part of the country declared itself independent as Somaliland. Somaliland is a de facto state that is not recognised by the UN.
The note above is the 5 Shilin note from 1978 with Cape Buffalo on the front and banana harvesting on the reverse
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