Dubats
Sign in to savethumb|right|350px|Dubat from Italian Somalia with rifle, futa and lanyard, 1938 Dubat (Wadaad's Somali :,دُوب عد); Arabic:العمائم البيضاء ); ḍubbāṭ: Italian: "turbanti bianchi", English: White turban) was the designation for members of the semi-regular armed bands employed by the Italian Royal Corps of Colonial Troops in Italian Somaliland from 1924 to 1941. The word dubat was derived from a Somali phrase meaning "white turban".
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thumb|right|350px|Dubat from Italian Somalia with rifle, futa and lanyard, 1938 Dubat (Wadaad's Somali :,دُوب عد); Arabic:العمائم البيضاء ); ḍubbāṭ: Italian: "turbanti bianchi", English: White turban) was the designation for members of the semi-regular armed bands employed by the Italian Royal Corps of Colonial Troops in Italian Somaliland from 1924 to 1941. The word dubat was derived from a Somali phrase meaning "white turban".
==Origin and duties==