Zaptié
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thumb|right|300px|Group of Zaptié in Italian Somaliland (1939).Zaptié was the name of locally raised gendarmerie units in the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica (later Italian Libya), Eritrea and Somaliland between 1888 and 1943.
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thumb|right|300px|Group of Zaptié in Italian Somaliland (1939).Zaptié was the name of locally raised gendarmerie units in the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica (later Italian Libya), Eritrea and Somaliland between 1888 and 1943.
==Origins and duties== thumb|Eritrean Zaptié, 1920s The word "zaptié" is derived from the Turkish zaptiye; a term which was used to refer to Otoman gendarmerie prior to 1923 and to the Turkish personnel recruited for the Cyprus Military Police during the period of British rule on the island. The Turkish word "zaptiye" is derived from the Arabic word dhaabet, which means "officer".