Sahdheer
Sahdheer or Saaxdheer (Somali: Saaxdheer) is a town in the south of the Sool region of Somaliland.
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Region | Sool |
District | Kalabaydh District |
Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Overview
Saaxdheer is on the border with Ethiopia. The town lies in the Sahader Valley, due south of Las Anod. Sahdheer lies a few miles northwest of Gumburka Cagaare[1], the site of the greatest Darwiish victory over a joint Abyssinian-British force. The British force consisted of men from nine different regions of the world:
Within the encampment there was a strange medley of men drawn from many different corners of the Empire: From the British Isles, from South Africa, from Frontier of India, from Kenya, from the Nile, from the uplands of Central Africa, Boers and Sikhs and Sudanese: Their race had battled against the Empire not so many years before, but had since found contentment and prosperity under British rule. [2]
References
- https://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-4573387&fid=5779&c=somalia
- Mad Mullah of Somaliland, page 94, Douglas Jardine