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Word: giggiga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Usage:

...tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road east from Harar and Giggiga, struck at Hargeisa and Oadweina-shack towns used by herdsmen and caravans as watering and market places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: War Without Water | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...River valley about 70 miles from. Addis Ababa, but he slithered away by-night. A good guess is that Abebe Arragia has been of no small help to Britain's Royal Camel Corps (now mechanized) ia raids over the Somaliland border toward Italy's supply lines through Giggiga, Harar, Dire Dawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Bush Battles | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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