Berbera

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Berbera (bûr`bərə), city (1985 est. pop. 67,000), N Somalia, a port on the Gulf of Aden. The city, which was first described in the 13th cent. by Arab geographers, was taken in 1875 by the rulers of Egypt; when they withdrew in 1884 to fight the Mahdi in Sudan, Britain took Berbera. It served until 1941 as the winter capital of British Somaliland was the site of a Soviet naval and missile base in the 1970s.

Berbera

a port in N Somalia, on the Gulf of Aden. Pop.: 70 000 (1990 est.)

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No references found			Somali livestock farmers who have converged massively on the port of Berbera after losing all their animals said that this year's drought is the worst in ten years. Drought forces Somali farmers into town by AFP / AFP Global Edition Moreover, landlocked Ethiopia uses Somaliland's port of Berbera extensively. Stabilising the horn by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) Mogadishu was captured by a force from Kenya on 25 February 1941, Massawa following on 8 April, falling to a force from Sudan, while Berbera in British Somaliland, which the Italians had conquered in August 1940, was recaptured on 16 March 1941 by a force from Aden, in an amphibious operation. Midway and the Indian Ocean by Black, Jeremy / Naval War College Review			Beon Beor BeOS Beowulf Bepin Chandra Pal Beppu Beqa, El bequest Ber ber function Bera Bera Festival Beracah Berachiah Berachya ben Natronai ha-Nakdan Berain, Jean, the Elder Beranek scale Beranger, Pierre Jean de Béranger, Pierre Jean de Berar Berardius Berat beraunite berbamine Berber Berbera Berberidaceae berberine berberis Berbers Berbice Berbice River Berce, Vizbulis Augusts Berceo, Gonzalo de berceuse Berchet, Giovanni Berchogur Berchta Berchtesgaden Berchtesgaden Meeting of 1938 Berchtold's Day Berchtold, Leopold, count von Berchtold, Leopold, Graf von Berd Berdakh Berdan Rifle Berdiaev, Arkadii Berdiaev, Arkadii Vasilevich Berdiaev, Nikolai Berdiaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdiansk			berating berating Berattle Beratung Forschung Systemplanung Verpackungsentwicklung und-Prufung Beratung für Informationstechnologie Beratung, Konzeption, Assistenz, Neuprogrammierung, Training Beratung-Konzeption-Realisierung-Betreuung Beratungs- und Rehabilitationsstelle für Sehbehinderte und Blind Beratungsdienst Spargel und Erdbeeren Beratungsstelle Fuer Natur Und Umwelt Beratungsstelle für Brand Und Umweltschutz Beratungsstelle für Unfallverhütung in der Landwirtschaft Berau Airport Berau Forest Bridging Project Berau Forest Management Project Béraud's valve Béraud's valve Béraud's valve beraunite Beray Berazino berbamine Berbe Berber Berber Berber languages Berber people Berber people Berber sheep Berbera Berberah Berberah Berbere Berberia Berberia Berberidaceae Berberidaceae berberidaceous berberine berberine berberine Berberis Berberis Berberis Berberis aquifolium Pursh Berberis aristata berberis bark Berberis canadensis Berberis thunbergii Berberis vulgaris berberises berberises berberises Berberry Berbers Berbers BERBI Berbice Berbice berbice chair

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