Etymology

French Territory of the Afars and the Issas

Today it means: A former overseas territory of France in the Horn of Africa, renamed from French Somaliland and existed between 1967 and 1977; modern-day Djibouti Full definition →

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The story

Named after the Afar people and the Somali Issa clan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.