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Battle of Segale

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Segale · near Addis Ababa · Ethiopia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 27 October 1916 the forces of Empress-regent Zewditu and Ras Tafari (later Haile Selassie) defeated Negus Mikael of Wollo, sealing the deposition of Lij Iyasu; Henze called it Ethiopia's greatest battle since Adwa.

Belligerents2

Zewditu / Tafari faction
Lij Iyasu / Negus Mikael faction

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Segale
Henze, Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Segale (1916). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-segale · Sources & methodology