Khedivate's Somali Coast

Khedivate's Somali Coast was a short-lived dominion of the Khedivate of Egypt over a few ports of the northern Somali coast. It came about when in 1874 Isma'il Pasha ordered the dispatch of two warships and three Khedival ships of the line towards the northern Somali coast. Ten years later, due to an internal rebellion in the Egyptian khedivate's mainland territories, it was forced to abandon its Somali territories in 1884, and Britain began to take over these ports.^[1][2] Controversies which existed during Egyptian administration included the payment of port duties by the Khedivate to the Ottomans, the inspection of the status of slave trade, and the demarcation of territory with the French Somali Coast as well as the Abyssinians towards the west.^[3]

Khedivate's Somali Coast
1874–1884
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Common languages	Somali Arabic Ottoman Turkish
History
• Established	1874
• Egyptian recall	1884
Preceded by Succeeded by Ottoman Zeila British Somaliland Obock Territory
Today part of	Djibouti

See also

• Garissa

References

1. "FRENCH SOMALI COAST 1708 – 1946 FRENCH SOMALI COAST | Awdalpress.com". www.awdalpress.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
2. Moore-Harell, Alice. "1877-1880: Three Years of Sudanese Domination in the Somali Coast." Northeast African Studies 4.3 (1997): 29-49.
3. Turton, E. R. "Kirk and the Egyptian Invasion of East Africa in 1875: A Reassessment." The Journal of African History 11.3 (1970): 355-370.