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Soma power station
Soma power station is a lignite-fired power plant at Soma in Manisa Province, Turkey, with a 990 MW Soma B plant privatized to Konya Şeker in 2015.
Soma Quality Recordings
Soma Quality Recordings, also known as Soma Records, is a Scottish independent techno and house label founded in Glasgow in 1991, best known for releasing Daft Punk's early singles.
Soma ritual
The Soma ritual (सोमयज्ञ, somayajna) is the class of Vedic shrauta sacrifices in which soma juice is pressed, offered to the gods, and drunk by priests.
Soma Weiss
Soma Weiss (1899–1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician and pharmacologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for Mallory-Weiss syndrome.
Somadeva
Somadeva (सोमदेव) was a Kashmiri Shaiva Brahmin and court poet to King Ananta of Kashmir who composed the Kathasaritsagara, the largest ancient Sanskrit story collection, around 1070 to amuse Queen Suryamati.
Somadeva Bhatta
Somadeva Bhatta (सोमदेव भट्ट) was a Shaiva Brahmin of Kashmir and Sanskrit writer active from 1063 to 1081, best known for compiling the Kathasaritsagara, a vast Sanskrit story collection, at the court of King Ananta.
Somadevasuri
Somadevasuri, usually called Somadeva Suri (सोमदेवसूरि), was a 10th-century Jain monk, poet, and writer on statecraft, known for the Sanskrit campu romance Yashastilaka, completed in 959 CE.
Somagalags Montes
Somagalags Montes is a 105-km-wide mountain group on Venus at 9.30°N, 348.50°E, IAU-named in 1997 for the Bella Coola earth mother, renamed from Somagalags Corona.
Somali Armed Forces
Somali Armed Forces: the military of the Federal Republic of Somalia, centered on the Somali National Army (SNA) under the Ministry of Defence. Founded 1960, collapsed 1991, rebuilt to fight al-Shabaab with AUSSOM and partner support.
Somali Bantu refugee resettlement
Somali Bantu refugee resettlement was the transfer of about 12,000 Somali Bantu refugees from Kenyan camps to US cities beginning in May 2003, the largest resettlement program ever undertaken in Africa.
Somali Civil War
Somali Civil War: conflict since the late 1980s that overthrew Siad Barre in January 1991, caused state collapse and famine, and continues as an al-Shabaab insurgency.
Somali Civil War (2009–present)
Somali Civil War (2009–present), the ongoing phase of Somalia's civil war: the weak Transitional Federal Government versus al-Shabaab (al-Qaeda affiliate since 2012), AU missions AMISOM, ATMIS, and AUSSOM, the 2011 loss of Mogadishu, and reversed 2022–23 offensive gains.
Somali clans
Somali clans are patrilineal descent groups organized into clan-families such as the Darod, Hawiye, Dir, and Rahanweyn, bound by xeer contracts and diya blood-compensation groups, central to Somali identity, security, and post-1991 politics.
Somali Current
Somali Current: seasonally reversing western boundary current of the Indian Ocean off East Africa, flowing northeast in the southwest monsoon at up to 3 m/s, reversing in winter, and driving the world's strongest seasonal coastal upwelling with the Great Whirl eddy.
Somali Democratic Republic
The Somali Democratic Republic (Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiga Soomaaliya) was Somalia under Siad Barre, 1969-1991: a military socialist state after the October 1969 coup, allied with the USSR until 1977, collapsing into civil war in 1991.
Somali insurgency (2006–2009)
The Somali insurgency of 2006–2009 was the armed campaign by Islamist insurgent groups, above all al-Shabaab, against Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and its Ethiopian military backers after the December 2006 invasion.
Somali Jet
The Somali Jet, also called the Findlater Jet, is a strong low-level cross-equatorial wind current near the Somali coast that carries moisture for the South Asian monsoon.
Somali language
Somali (Af-Soomaali) is a Lowland East Cushitic language of the Horn of Africa with tens of millions of speakers; official in Somalia and Ethiopia's Somali Region, written in a Latin orthography adopted 21 October 1972.
Somali National Alliance
The Somali National Alliance (SNA) was a politico-military faction formed in Mogadishu in 1992 under General Mohamed Farah Aidid, a principal party in the Somali Civil War.
Somali National Movement
The Somali National Movement (SNM) was an Isaaq-dominated armed group founded in London in 1981 to overthrow Siad Barre; it declared Somaliland independent in 1991.
Somali National University
Somali National University (Jaamacadda Ummadda Soomaaliyeed, SNU) is Somalia's public national university, headquartered in Mogadishu. Founded in 1954, it closed in 1991 during the civil war and reopened in 2014.
Somali Patriotic Movement
The Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM) was an Ogadeni armed group formed in 1989 to fight Siad Barre's regime, then split into rival factions fighting over Kismayo.
Somali people
Somali people (Soomaalida) are a Cushitic ethnolinguistic group of the Horn of Africa, 25-30 million strong, Shafi'i Sunni, clan-organized, speaking Somali, spanning Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and a global diaspora.
Somali refugees in Kenya
Somali refugees in Kenya are people who fled Somalia, mostly after civil war broke out in 1991, and live largely in the Dadaab and Kakuma camps and in Nairobi.
Somali Region
Somali Region (Somali Regional State), Ethiopia's second largest regional state at about 350,000 km² with 5.3 million people, a predominantly pastoral, livestock-based economy, recurrent drought, and large internally displaced populations.
Somali Republic
The Somali Republic was an independent state formed on 1 July 1960 by the union of British and Italian Somaliland, ending with a 1969 military coup.
Somali Salvation Democratic Front
The Somali Salvation Democratic Front, also known as the Democratic Front for the Salvation of Somalia, was a Somali opposition group founded in 1981 to overthrow Siad Barre.
Somali shilling
The Somali shilling (SOS) is the de jure currency of Somalia, issued from 1962 until the central bank collapsed in 1991; the US dollar is now the de facto currency.
Somali Youth League
The Somali Youth League (Ururka Dhalinyarada Soomaaliyeed), founded in Mogadishu in 1943 as the Somali Youth Club, led Somalia to independence in 1960 and dominated its politics until the 1969 coup.
Somalia
Somalia (Federal Republic of Somalia), Horn of Africa country; independent 1960, Barre coup 1969, state collapse 1991, federal government formed 2012 with six member states; Somaliland self-governing and unrecognized; Al-Shabaab insurgency, drought, and aid-dependent economy.