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Eviction of Ethiopians in Addis Ababa (1937 -1939)

Ethiopia was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland  that December gave…

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Addis Ababa in times of Italian occupation

During the Italian fascist occupation of Ethiopia (1936-1941) the authorities considered the idea of moving the capital to the low lands and nearer the sea….

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