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Beilul (Ge'ez: በይሉል, romanized: Bäylul, Arabic: بيلول, alternatively, Beylul) formerly known as Baylour is a small cape town in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. Beilul was the historical main port ruled by the Kingdom of Dankali and as a point of communication between the Ethiopian Empire with the outside world.
In 1975, he was jailed for the perceived political interpretation of one of his songs. [2] A few years after the declaration of the independence of Eritrea, Yemane moved to Asmara and continued to release albums that reflected the new era of hope and national prosperity, with a mixture of Eritrean melodies. He also sang about the people ...
Faytinga was born on 10 June 1962 in Asmara, Eritrea to a Tigrinya mother and Kunama father, who was a revered freedom fighter among the ethnic group. The state of anarchy that ensued in 1942 after the defeat of the Italian army, forced her father to form a military band to defend the Kunama people against the raids they suffered.
Six explosions in Asmara during the night of 28 November were reported by United States State Department, although the reason was not immediately clear. [7] Diplomats based in Addis Ababa told Agence France-Presse that the explosions were caused by rockets, which apparently struck the Asmara International Airport and Eritrean military facilities.
The bitter border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, once a single nation, played out far from the global spotlight. ... It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again ...
Awet (Letekidan Micael) is born the daughter of an Eritrean man and an Ethiopian woman - a bad combination in 1974, in the middle of a long liberation war between the two peoples. Asmara is under Ethiopian occupation, and Awet's father takes to the woods with the Eritrean freedom fighters. Left alone and needy, Awet's mother attempts to kill ...
The Ottomans invaded the Kingdom of Medri Bahri, now modern-day Eritrea, in 1557 with a force of perhaps 1400-1500 under Özdemir Pasha.First, they captured Massawa, Hirgigo and Beylul then moved inland and captured the regional capital of Debarwa from the Abyssinian Kingdom, he built masjids, a large mosque, and "established a fort [...] with 'a long wall and very high tower... filled with ...
Though they remained in government hands, Asmara, Barentu, Adi Keyeh, and Massawa were now besieged by the insurgents. By October 1977, EPLF fighters had besieged the town of Massawa. [2] This included the main road used by the garrison for the transport of supplies from Asmara. Essentially the garrison was cut off by land and under siege. [3] [4]