Ciid

Ciid is an archaic native geographic name for the land between the region of Mudug and the Nugaal Valley, roughly congruous with the northern Bookh district in Ethiopia. As such, Ciid constitutes the tripoint of the former three colonial powers Abyssinia, Britain and Italy, thus situating Mudug immediately southeast of Ciid, the Nugaal Valley immediately north of Ciid, and Haud to the west of Ciid. One historian referred to it as the syrup-colored land and it is today embodied by Ciid towns such as Xamxam, Magacley, Qoriley, Biriqodey, Beerdhiga and Gumburka Cagaare. Ciid constitutes the northern third of the disputed Somali-Ethiopian territory outlined in the 16 May 1908 Italo-Ethiopian border agreement also called the 1908 Convention. A 2001 Journal from Indiana University describes Ciid as being congruous with Boocame District by referring to Ciid as north of the Mudug region and the west of the Garowe region.

Name

Someone who comes from Ciid is sometimes called reer Ciideed. The long conventional name of Ciid is Carro Ciideed.

1908 Convention Line

The 1908 Convention line, also called the 16 May 1908 Italo-Ethiopian border agreement, or the Feerfeer-Dharkayn Geenyo line, was the former demarcation between Italian-administered Somalia and Abyssinia. The demarcation of the 1908 Convention from a southerly direction begins either at Ferfeer in Hiiraan province, or uses the adjacent Shebelle river as the defining boundary depending on interpretation, and is demarcated in a straight line northwards until Dharkayn Geenyo, a town which straddles the border between Buuhoodle District and Sool region in Somaliland, where the demarcation ends. Most modern maps disregard the 1908 conventional line and replace it with the provisional administrative line established in 1950 by Britain. During the incident of the Walwal crisis of 1934, the new Italian government changed their definition of the 1908 convention and the subsequent ratification of 1928 by stating they interpreted the 1908 convention line to be situated near the oasis of Walwal. Most academic journals dating to the first two decade of the twentieth century used the Feerfeer-Dharkayn Geenyo Line as the formal demarcation line between Abyssinia and Somalia.