Major conflict1885 – 1890 · 5 years

Italian conquest of Eritrea

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Massawa · Asmara · Saati

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Italian seizure of Massawa, defeat at Dogali (1887) and final occupation of the highlands that created the colony of Eritrea.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Italy
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Dogali1887

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Italian conquest of Eritrea (1885 – 1890). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/italian-conquest-of-eritrea · Sources & methodology