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unusual facts about horn of Africa



Abd al-Kuri Sparrow

The Abd al-Kuri Sparrow (Passer hemileucus) is a passerine bird endemic to the small island of Abd al Kuri (also spelled several other ways) in the Socotra archiplago of the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa.

Ambouli

Canbala appears in Muhammad al-Idrisi's map of 1192 on the coast of the Horn of Africa, southeast of the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, and with Cambaleh, a town where the Venetian traveller Bragadino, a thirteenth-century European visitor to Ethiopia, resided for eight years.

Botiala

Somali traders in the region for centuries transported goods such as aromatic woods, gum and incense from the interior of the Horn of Africa to and from the coastal port to conduct trade with Indian, Persian and Arab merchants.

British currency in the Middle East

The East African shilling was originally used in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika but it soon spread to Zanzibar and British Somaliland, eventually crossing from the horn of Africa to Aden on the Arabian coast in 1951, where it replaced the rupee in that territory.

Carrier Strike Group Six

The group's final operation was a special shore duty deployment as Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) in Djibouti, East Africa under Rear Admiral Michael Hunt.

LĂ©once Lagarde

As ambassador to Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, Lagarde built-up French presence in the Horn of Africa to protect the colony from British domination, which was slowly expanding from Egypt.

Mediterranean race

Giuseppe Sergi's much-debated book The Mediterranean Race (1901) argued that the Mediterranean race had in fact originated in Africa, probably in the Sahara region, and that it also included a number of dark-skinned peoples from the African continent (North Africa and the Horn of Africa), such as Ethiopians and Somalis.

Slavery in Africa

To meet the demand for menial labor, Zanj slaves captured from the southern interior were sold through ports on the northern seaboard in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to customers in the Nile Valley, Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, India, Far East and the Indian Ocean islands.

Socotra Sparrow

The Socotra Sparrow (Passer insularis) is a passerine bird endemic to the islands of Socotra, Samhah, and Darsah in the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa.

Stapeliae

Several species are endemic to the small island of Socotra off the Horn of Africa.

VMM-263

During the nine-month deployment as part of the 24th MEU in 2002-2003, the Thunder Chickens, as they were then known, flew an unprecedented 9568 hours and participated in Operation Enduring Freedom in the Horn of Africa, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in and around Baghdad, Tikrit, and Al Kut, Iraq.


see also

African Small White

Dixeia charina, a butterfly endemic to Africa's east coast from the Horn of Africa to the Cape region

Eleonora's Falcon

Traditionally it has been suggested to be coastal, with birds from the western end of the Mediterranean flying to Suez before flying south down the Red Sea, and across the Horn of Africa.

Ifat

Ifat Sultanate, a Muslim kingdom in the northern Horn of Africa.

Ocean Shield

Operation Ocean Shield, the NATO contribution to anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa from 2009 to present

Qat

Khat or Qat, a flowering plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

Saho

Saho people, ethnic group living largely in the Horn of Africa

Wak

Waaq, the name of God in the traditional religion of many Cushitic people in the Horn of Africa