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  2. Awdal - Wikipedia

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    Awdal (Somali: Awdal, Arabic: أودَل) is an administrative region [4] [5] in western Somaliland. It was separated from Woqooyi Galbeed and became a province in 1984 and is the most northwesterly province of Somaliland .

  3. Regions of Somaliland - Wikipedia

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    The regions of Somaliland (Somali: Gobolada Somaliland; Arabic: محافظات صوماليلاند) is divided into six administrative regions, Awdal, Sahil, Maroodi-Jeeh, Togdheer, Sanaag and Sool. These are in turn subdivided into twenty-two districts. Regions of Somaliland are the primary geographical divisions through which Somaliland is ...

  4. Adal (historical region) - Wikipedia

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    Adal (Harari: አዳል; Somali: Awdal), known as Awdal or Aw Abdal [1] [2] was a historical Muslim region in the Horn of Africa. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Located east of Ifat and the Awash river as far as the coast, and including Harar as well as Zeila .

  5. Borama - Wikipedia

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    Borama (Somali: Boorama, Arabic: بورما) is the largest city of the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland. [2] The commercial seat of the province, it is situated near the border with Ethiopia.

  6. Administrative divisions of Somalia - Wikipedia

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    In 1964, a new Northeastern (Burao) Province was established by merging Burao, Erigavo, and Las Anod and a Northwestern (Hargeisa) Province was formed from Berbera, Borama, and Hargeisa districts. [3] In 1968, the capital of Basso Giuba was moved from Kismayo to Jamame. The 8 provinces at this time were: [3]

  7. Adal Sultanate - Wikipedia

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    Adal (also Awdal, Adl, or Adel) [22] was situated east of the province of Ifat and was a general term for a region of lowlands inhabited by Muslims. It was used ambiguously in the medieval era to indicate the Muslim inhabited low land portion east of the Ethiopian Empire.

  8. Borama District - Wikipedia

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    "Awdal in western Somaliland is situated between Djibouti, Ethiopia and the Issaq-populated mainland of Somaliland. It is primarily inhabited by the three sub-clans of the Gadabursi clan, whose traditional institutions survived the colonial period, Somali statehood and the war in good shape, remaining functionally intact and highly relevant to ...

  9. Abasa, Awdal - Wikipedia

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    Abasa is situated around 50 km to the north of Borama, the capital city of the Awdal Region in Somaliland, and about 15 km to the east of Boon, Awdal. [6] [7] Philip Briggs (2012) describes the ruins of Abasa: "Abasa, the most impressive of the ruins around Borama, is accessible by 4x4 only.