Taleex

Taleex or Taleh (, ) is a toun in northeastren Somalia. It haes a population o 32,100 inhabitants, an is the administrative centre in the Taleex district o the Sool region Puntland Government 

Taleex wis the centre o the anti-colonial sultanate led bi Diiriye Guure an Mohammed Abdullah Hassan till 1921, when he an his Dervish followers wur defeatit. The toun wis subsequently subjectit tae aerial bombardment, an Hassan wis forced tae abandon his palace there an retreat intae the Ogaden.Said S. Samatar, Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 131, 135

See an aa
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan
Dervish State

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Category:Geografie o Somalie
Category:Populatit places in Somalie