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Sunday, August 1, 2021

Basic timeline of Djibouti

This post is a basic timeline of Djibouti. There are 9 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Land of Punt (2500 - 980 BC)
• Macrobians (1st millennium BC)
• Aksum kingdom (80 - 960 AD)
• Ifat Sultanate (1185-1403)
• Adal Sultanate (1415-1577)
• French Somaliland (1883-1967)
• French Territory of the Afars and the Issas (1967-1977)
• Djibouti gains independence (1977)
• Djiboutian Civil War (1991-1994)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Djibouti at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Djibouti.)