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Obock Territory
Obock Territory Territoire d'Obock | |||||||
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| 1862–1896 | |||||||
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| Anthem: "Partant pour la Syrie"[1] (de facto)[2][3] "Departing for Syria" | |||||||
 Map of the Obock Territory and Dependencies drawn c.1889 | |||||||
| Status | French colony | ||||||
| Capital | Obock | ||||||
| Official languages | French | ||||||
| Common languages | Afar Arabic Somali | ||||||
| Religion | Islam Christianity | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1862 | ||||||
• Disestablished | 1896 | ||||||
| Currency | French franc | ||||||
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| Today part of | Djibouti | ||||||
The Obock Territory and Dependencies was an administrative colony belonging to the Second French colonial empire, between 1862 and 1896, located in the current republic of Djibouti.
- ^ White, Richard Grant (1861). National Hymns. How They are Written and how They are Not Written: A Lyric and National Study for the Times. New York City, New York: Rudd & Carleton. p. 59.
- ^ Sousa, John Philip (1890). National, Patriotic and Typical: Airs of All Lands. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: H. Coleman. pp. vii, 100.
- ^ Martens, Frederick H. (1930). "Music Mirrors of the Second Empire: Part 1". The Musical Quarterly. 16 (3): 426. doi:10.1093/mq/XVI.3.415. JSTOR 738378.
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