Major conflict1895 – 1896 · 1 year

First Italo-Ethiopian War

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Ethiopia · Adwa · Tigray

Estimated casualties

7.0Ksingle estimate · no range published

Italian attempts to colonize Ethiopia defeated by Emperor Menelik II at the Battle of Adwa (1896), preserving Ethiopian independence and becoming a symbol of African resistance.

Belligerents2

Italian Empire
Ethiopia

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

PART OFItalian-Ethiopian Wars

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Halai1894
Battle of Coatit1895

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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