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- ↑ Hagmann, Tobias (2005): Challenges of decentralisation in Ethiopia's Somali Region, Briefing for Review of African Political Economy Vol. 32, No. 103, p. 5
- ↑ Braukämper, Ulrich (2003): Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia. Collected Essays, Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie 9, ISBN 978-3-8258-5671-7 (p. 15, 137)
- ↑ H. G. C. Swayne, "A Trip to Harar and Imé", Geographical Journal, 2 (September 1893), p. 251
