Regional1896 – 1941 · 45 years

Italian-Ethiopian Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Ethiopia · Abyssinia · East Africa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Series of Italian invasions attempting to colonize and conquer Ethiopia. See per-war entries.

Belligerents2

Italy
Ethiopia

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 11

Battle of Amba Alagi (1895)1895
Battle of Coatit1895
Battle of Adwa (Italian theater)1895–96
First Italo-Ethiopian War1895–96
Siege of Mekele1896
Second Italo-Ethiopian War1935–36
Battle of Amba Aradam1936
Battle of Maychew1936
Battle of Shire1936
Ethiopian Patriots resistance1936–41
Yekatit 12 massacre1937

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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