Sagallo

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Sagallo was a short-lived Russian colony on the Gulf of Tadjoura in present-day Djibouti. In 1889 a Cossack soldier of fortune, by the name of Nicholas Achinov, arrived with settlers, infantry and an Orthodox priest. The French considered the presence of the Russians as a violation of their territorial rights and dispatched two gunboats. The Russians were bombarded and after some loss of life, surrendered. The colonists were deported to Odessa and the dream of Russian expansion in Africa came to an end in less than one year.

Source: Harding, Les. Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.The Scarecrow Press, 1998