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Sagallo, Russia's Short-Lived Cossack Colony In Africa
In 1888, the "Scramble For Africa" was nearly over. European powers had carved out their colonies, and Imperial Russia still lacked a "place in the sun." But adventurer Nikolai Ivanovitch Achinov came up with a bizarre plan to create a Russian territory in what is now Djibouti. The following...
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Russia tried to take a piece of the African pie by building its first colony in what is now Djibouti but the plan failed as France dislodged the Russian colonists and the Imperial Russian Government disowned them.
Russia's African plan is nothing new since the 1800s the Russians were interested in the continent.
