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ITALIAN COLONIALISM IN ERITREA AT THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY – A HISTORICAL REVIEW
David Orlović
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Abstract
As a minor part of the large wave of conquest of Africa launched by European powers in the last decades of the 19th century, a recently unified Kingdom of Italy began building its own colony on the Red Sea coast, in present-day Eritrea. The local and European historical context, the causes of Italian colonial expansion and chronology of main political and military events, are presented in this paper. The Italian defeat at Adowa in 1896, by the hands of the Ethiopian military, is singled out by the author as the ending of this period of Italian colonialism. Finally, the immediate and long-term consequences of that event are mentioned.
Keywords
Italy; colonialism; Africa; Eritrea; Ethiopia
Hrčak ID:
74621
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Publication date:
30.6.2011.
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