Somali Republic | ||||||||||||
Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed Repubblica Somala جمهورية الصومال Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl |
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Anthem Anthem of the Somali Republic |
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Location of the Somali Republic.
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Capital | Mogadishu | |||||||||||
Languages | Somali · Arabic · Italian · English | |||||||||||
Religion | Islam | |||||||||||
Government | Republic | |||||||||||
President | ||||||||||||
• | 1960–1967 | Aden Abdullah Osman Daar | ||||||||||
• | 1967–1969 | Abdirashid Ali Shermarke | ||||||||||
• | 1969 | Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein | ||||||||||
Prime Minister | ||||||||||||
• | 1960, 1967–1969 | Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal | ||||||||||
• | 1960–1964 | Abdirashid Ali Shermarke | ||||||||||
• | 1964–1967 | Abdirizak Haji Hussein | ||||||||||
Legislature | National Assembly | |||||||||||
Historical era | Cold War | |||||||||||
• | Independence | July 1, 1960 | ||||||||||
• | Coup d'état | October 21, 1969 | ||||||||||
Area | ||||||||||||
• | 1961 | 637,657 km² (246,201 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | ||||||||||||
• | 1961 est. | 2,027,300 | ||||||||||
Density | 3.2 /km² (8.2 /sq mi) | |||||||||||
• | 1969 est. | 2,741,000 | ||||||||||
Density | 4.3 /km² (11.1 /sq mi) | |||||||||||
Currency |
East African shilling (1960–1962) Somalo (1960–1962) Somali shilling (1962–1969) |
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Today part of | Somalia |
The Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed, Italian: Repubblica Somala, Arabic: جمهورية الصومال Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl) was the official name of Somalia after independence on July 1, 1960, following the union of the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) and British Somaliland. A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa Mohamud and Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate administrations, with the speaker of the SOMALIA ACT OF UNION Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President of the Somali Republic, on 22 July 1960 appointed Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister. On 20 July 1961 and through a popular referendum, the people of Somalia ratified a new constitution, which was first drafted in 1960. The administration lasted until 1969, when the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) seized power in a bloodless putsch and renamed the country the Somali Democratic Republic.