Khedivate's Somali Coast

{{Short description|Dominion of Egypt from 1874 to 1884}}

{{Infobox Former Country

| conventional_long_name = Khedivate's Somali Coast

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| p1 = Ottoman Zeila

| flag_p1 = Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922).svg

| s1 = British Somaliland

| flag_s1 = Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

| flag_s2 = Flag of France.svg

| s2 = Obock Territory

| image_flag = Flag of Muhammad Ali.svg

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| common_languages = Somali
Arabic
Ottoman Turkish

| event_start = Egyptian Invasion of Harar

| date_start =

| year_start = 1874

| event_end = Egyptian recall

| date_end =

| year_end = 1884

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| today = Djibouti
Somaliland

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Khedivate's Somali Coast was a short-lived dominion of the Khedivate of Egypt over a few ports of the northern Somali coast. It came about when in 1874 Isma'il Pasha ordered the dispatch of two warships and three Khedival ships of the line towards the northern Somali coast. Ten years later, due to an internal rebellion in the Egyptian khedivate's mainland territories, it was forced to abandon its Somali territories in 1884, and Britain began to take over these ports.{{cite web |url=http://www.awdalpress.com/index/archives/16528 |title=FRENCH SOMALI COAST 1708 – 1946 FRENCH SOMALI COAST | Awdalpress.com |website=www.awdalpress.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609002748/http://www.awdalpress.com/index/archives/16528 |archive-date=9 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}Moore-Harell, Alice. "1877-1880: Three Years of Sudanese Domination in the Somali Coast." Northeast African Studies 4.3 (1997): 29-49.

Controversies which existed during Egyptian administration included the payment of port duties by the Khedivate to the Ottomans, the inspection of the status of slave trade, and the demarcation of territory with the French Somali Coast as well as the Abyssinians towards the west.Turton, E. R. "Kirk and the Egyptian Invasion of East Africa in 1875: A Reassessment." The Journal of African History 11.3 (1970): 355-370.