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Adwa (Tigrinya: ዓድዋ; Amharic: ዐድዋ; also spelled Adowa or Aduwa) is a town and separate woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is best known as the community closest to the site of the 1896 Battle of Adwa , in which Ethiopian soldiers defeated Italian troops, thus being one of the few African nations to thwart European colonialism .
The Battle of Adwa (Amharic: የዐድዋ ጦርነት; Tigrinya: ውግእ ዓድዋ; Italian: battaglia di Adua, also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Ethiopian army, led by Ras Makonen Wolde Mikael , managed to defeat the heavily outnumbered invading Italian and Eritrean force led by Oreste Baratieri ...
The Adwa Victory Day (Amharic: የዐድዋ ድል ቀን) is a national holiday in Ethiopia which is celebrated on 2 March, in commemoration of Ethiopian victory against Italy's colonization effort at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
Adwa (Tigrinya: ዓድዋ) is a woreda in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Maekelay Zone , Adwa is bordered on the south by Werie Leké , on the west by La'ilay Maychew , on the north by Mereb Leké , and on the east by Enticho .
The Hewett Treaty, also called the Treaty of Adwa, was an agreement between Britain, Egypt [a] and Ethiopia signed at Adwa on 3 June 1884. The treaty ended a long-simmering conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia, but indirectly started a new conflict between Ethiopia and Italy .
The Adwa 00KM Museum (Amharic: አድዋ 00 ሙዚየም) is a public historical museum located in Piasa, Arada district, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Inaugurated on 11 February 2024, the museum is dedicated to the Battle of Adwa , the battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War where Italian forces defeated by the Ethiopian Army in 1896.
On 5 October, the I Corps took Adigrat and, by 6 October 1935, Adwa [4] was captured by the II Corps. In 1896, Adwa was the site of a humiliating Italian defeat during the First Italo–Ethiopian War and now that historic defeat was "avenged". But, in 1935, the Italian capture of Adwa was accomplished with almost no Ethiopian resistance.
On 6 October, Adwa was conquered, a symbolic place for the Italian army because of the defeat at the Battle of Adwa by the Ethiopian army during the First Italo-Ethiopian War. On 15 October, Italian troops seized Aksum , and an obelisk adorning the city was torn from its site and sent to Rome to be placed symbolically in front of the building ...