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"Ogaden"

Hello,my friends,

This posting is about the region "Ogaden" from the story "My Father, the Englishman and I" . We can know from the story that this region is in Africa but we dont know where it actually is, big or small. Ogaden is the region of the Ogaden Somali, a sub-clan of the Darod. It was put into Ethiopia officailly by the British after the war, as far as I know. The map and regional flags are shown ,too. The references are below and enjoy reading. =)

>"Ogaden (pronounced and often spelled Ogadēn, Somali: Ogaaden) is a part of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. Sometimes known as "Abyssinian Somaliland," some locals refer to it as Ogadenia (Somali: Ogaadeeniya). The inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Somali and Muslim; most of these Somali inhabitants belong to the Ogaden Somali, a sub-clan of the Darod.
The region, which is around 150,000 to 200,000 square kilometres, borders Djibouti, Kenya, and Somalia, and has a population of 5,500,000 people.[citation needed] Important settlements include Kabri Dahar, Jijiga, Godey, Dhagah bur , Warder,and Shilabo.
The region is at the center of the volatile Horn of Africa."

>"It was colonized by Great Britain as a protectorate from the last quarter of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, before it was annexed by Ethiopia, although the boundary of British Somalia was one of the first to be fixed by treaty (June, 1897)."

source->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogaden

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