Borama, Somaliland

Somaliland

Borama, Somaliland connects to 2168 places across 11 topics through 34 Bunkabop connections, led by history, nature, and government. Its strongest overlaps are with Somaliland, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Excavations near the town found coins from Egypt's Burji Mamluk sultan Kait Bey, linked to the medieval Adal Sultanate. In 1933, Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur, son of Borama's qadi, devised the Borama script for the Somali language. Borama was one of several northern cities bombed by Ethiopian forces during the Ogaden War in the late 1970s.

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