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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.
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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.
The 1991 Zeila incursion (Somali: Dagaalkii Saylac) was a Djiboutian-backed incursion during the Somaliland War of Independence led by the United Somali Front (USF), purporting to politically represent the Issa clans in the western Awdal region of Somaliland, [1] with the goal of annexing the towns of Zeila, Loyada and Gerisa (Zeyla triangle) to Djibouti.
The site of Aw-Barkhadle includes archaeological remains, a ruined town within which the current mausoleum of Saint Aw Barkhadle is located, as well as different types of burial traditions, including Christian, Muslim, and others of non-Islamic character such as cairns, dolmens and stelae including phallic gravestones.
The administrative division of Somaliland are organized into three hierarchical levels. consists of 6 regions and 22 districts.Districts in turn contain villages. In addition, the capital Hargeisa has its own law (capital law) that is different from the law that defines administrative divisions.