| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Somaliland |
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| SYLLABICATION: | So·ma·li·land |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -mä l -l nd , s - |
| A region of eastern Africa comprising present-day Somalia, Djibouti, and southeast Ethiopia. The area was a target of European colonization after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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