Administrative divisions of Somalia became part of Italian East Africa with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Eritrea. Italian Somaliland was one of six governorates of the new colony, the Somalia Governorate, and incorporated Somali-inhabited parts of the former Abyssinia. The governorate was subdivided into 10 commissariats, which were themselves divided into residencies. Following World War II, the Italian-administered Trust Territory of Somalia consisted of six Regions. The British Somaliland protectorate also consisted of two Regions. Upon independence in 1960, the Somali Republic maintained the 12 districts of the former Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland that merged to form the new country. In 1964, a new Northeastern
Name of Georgia (country) the Syriac "gurz-ān"/"gurz-iyān" and Arabic "ĵurĵan"/"ĵurzan", derived from the New Persian "gurğ"/"gurğān", itself stemming from the Middle Persian "waručān" of unclear origin, but resembling the eastern trans-Caspian toponym Gorgan, which comes from the Old Persian "varkâna-", "land of the wolves". This might have been of the same etymology as the Armenian "Virk"' (Վիրք) and a source of the Greco-Roman rendition "Iberi" (), the ethnonym already known to them as a designation of the Iberian peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. One theory on the etymology of the name Iberia, proposed by Giorgi Melikishvili, was that it was derived from the contemporary