 the somali democratic republic (, , ) was the name that the communist regime of former president of somalia major general mohamed siad barre gave to somalia during its reign, after having seized power in a bloodless 1969 coup d'Ã©tat.j. d. fage, roland anthony oliver, the cambridge his
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