1891-1918 1939-1977







French Somali Coast, 1918-1939



Djibouti continued to serve as a port and coal station for French ships en route to or from Indochina and as a port from which landlocked Ethiopia could be supplied.
In 1935, the Italians invaded Ethiopia, which surrendered in 1936. The League of Nations called for an economic boycott of Italy and it's colonies, a boycott France observed; this boycott was especially harmful to Djibouti's trade with (now Italian) Ethiopia.





EXTERNAL
FILES 		Articles from Infoplease : Djibouti
French Somaliland : Djibouti, the Colony, from Djiboutian Sightings
Links to Djibouti from UPenn, African Studies
Brief history 1898-1967, from al.oueb
DOCUMENTS Map of Djibouti, from UPenn, African Studies
Fr. Somaliland's banknotes, from Ron Wise's World Paper Money
List of Governors, from World Statesmen by Ben Cahoon
REFERENCE Article : French Somaliland, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1919 p.868, 1924 pp.917-918, 1925 p.929, 1926 p.902, 1928 pp.917-918, 1929 p.905, 1932 pp.907-908, 1937 pp.948-949 [G]
Article : French Somaliland, in : Americana Annual 1927 pp.364-365, 1928 p.324, 1930 p.341, 1931 p.338, 1932 p.308, 1933 p.336, 1934 p.265, 1935 p.307, 1936 pp.312-313, 1937 p.306, 1938 p.298, 1939 p.322, 1940 p.323 [G]



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