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  1. Former Italian Trust Territory on the Somali
  2. coast of Africa extending to 502,300 sq
  3. km/194,999 sq mi. Established in 1892, it was
  4. extended in 1925 with the acquisition of
  5. Jubaland from Kenya; administered from
  6. Mogadishu; under British rule 1941-50.
  7. Thereafter it reverted to Italian authority
  8. before uniting with British Somaliland in
  9. 1960 to form the independent state of
  10. Somalia.
  11.