The State of Somaliland was a short-lived independent country in the territory of present-day Somaliland.[1] It was the name assumed by the former British Somaliland protectorate in the five days between June 26, 1960 and July 1, 1960, when the territory prepared for union as scheduled with the Trust Territory of Somaliland under Italian Administration (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic, the first incarnation of modern-day Somalia.