Amhara Governorate
Amhara (blue) within Italian East Africa
World War II
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Amhara Governorate was one of the six governorates of Italian East Africa. Its capital was Gondar. It was formed in 1936 from parts of the conquered Ethiopian Empire following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. It had a population of more than 2 million inhabitants (In 1940 11,200 were Italians settlers, mostly in the capital Gondar). In November 1938 some territory of Amhara in the Scioa region was given to the neighboring Addis Abeba Governorate, enlarging it to the Scioa Governorate.
The region was a stronghold of fierce Ethiopian resistance against the Italians. By 1940, the last areas of guerilla activity was around Lake Tana and southern Gojjam, under the leadership of the degiac Mengesha Gembere and Belay Zeleke.[1]
References
- ^ Barker 1968, pp. 281, 300.
Bibliography
- Antonicelli, Franco (1961) Trent'anni di storia italiana 1915–1945, Saggi series 295, Torino : Einaudi, 387 p. [in Italian]
- Barker, A. J. (1968). The Civilising Mission: The Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–6. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-93201-6.
- Del Boca, Angelo (1986) Italiani in Africa Orientale: La caduta dell'Impero, Biblioteca universale Laterza 186, Roma : Laterza, ISBN 88-420-2810-X [in Italian]
- Mockler, Anthony (1984). Haile Selassie's War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign, 1935–1941, New York : Random House, ISBN 0-394-54222-3
See also
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- Italian Ethiopia
- Amhara Governorate
- Harar Governorate
- Galla-Sidamo Governorate
- Scioa Governorate
- First Italo-Ethiopian War
- Abyssinia Crisis
- Second Italo-Ethiopian War
- Gondrand massacre
- Italian invasion of British Somaliland
- Italian attacks in Kenya
- Italian tentative to occupy French Somaliland
- East African Campaign
- Last stand at Amba Alagi
- Battle of Gondar
- Battle of Culqualber
- Italian guerrilla war in A.O.I. (1941-1943)
- New roads in Italian Ethiopia
- Linea aerea dell'Impero
- Ivo Olivetti aeroporto
- Italian colonial railways
- Ethio-Djibouti Railways
- Addis Ababa Stadium
- Royal Corps of Colonial Troops
- Italian African Police
- Armed Forces of Italian East Africa
- Bands
- Dubats