Question: When was Eritrea annexed by the Horn of Africa country where Somali people live and has the Maskali Islands off its coast?

ottoman turkish was the official language of the empire. it was an oghuz turkic language highly influenced by persian and arabic. the ottomans had several influential languages: turkish, spoken by the majority of the people in anatolia and by the majority of muslims of the balkans except in albania and bosnia; persian, only spoken by the educated; arabic, spoken mainly in arabia, north africa, iraq, kuwait, the levant and parts of the horn of africa; and somali throughout the horn of africa. in the last two centuries, usage of these became limited, though, and specific: persian served mainly as a literary language for the educated, while arabic was used for religious rites. <SEP> in the late 19th century, after the berlin conference had ended, european empires sailed with their armies to the horn of africa. the imperial clouds wavering over somalia alarmed the dervish leader mohammed abdullah hassan, who gathered somali soldiers from across the horn of africa and began one of the longest anti-colonial wars ever. the dervish state successfully repulsed the british empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region. as a result of its successes against the british, the dervish state received support from the ottoman and german empires. the turks also named hassan emir of the somali nation, and the germans promised to officially recognize any territories the dervishes were to acquire. after a quarter of a century of holding the british at bay, the dervishes were finally defeated in 1920, when britain for the first time in africa used airplanes to bomb the dervish capital of taleex. as a result of this bombardment, former dervish territories were turned into a protectorate of britain. italy similarly faced the same opposition from somali sultans and armies and did not acquire full control of parts of modern somalia until the fascist era in late 1927. this occupation lasted till 1941 and was replaced by a british military administration. <SEP> Somali people in the Horn of Africa are divided among different countries (Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and northeastern Kenya) that were artificially and some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former imperial powers. Pan-Somalism is an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis once part of Somali empires such as the Ajuran Empire, the Adal Sultanate, the Gobroon Dynasty and the Dervish State under one flag and one nation. The Siad Barre regime actively promoted Pan-Somalism, which eventually led to the Ogaden War between Somalia on one side, and Ethiopia, Cuba and the Soviet Union on the other. <SEP> Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia in 1953 (nominally within a federation until 1962) and an Eritrean Liberation Front formed in 1960. During the Middle Ages, the Eritrea region was known as Medri Bahri ("sea-land"). The name Eritrea is derived from the ancient Greek name for Red Sea (Ἐρυθρὰ Θάλασσα Erythra Thalassa, based on the adjective ἐρυθρός erythros "red"). It was first formally adopted in 1890, with the formation of Italian Eritrea (Colonia Eritrea). The territory became the Eritrea Governorate within Italian East Africa in 1936. Eritrea gained independence following the 1993 referendum, and the name of the new state was defined as State of Eritrea in the 1997 constitution. [citation needed] <SEP> The Maskali Islands are located off the coast of Djibouti in the Gulf of Tadjoura. The islands are part of the Djibouti Region.