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The relations between Ethiopia and Italy [14] in the field of political, security and economic cooperation have been good in recent years. In 2015, the at the time foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni and Prime minister visited Addis Ababa on a state visit.
In 2010, there were over 2,000 Ethiopians of Italian descent, while there were around 1,400 Italian citizens. Ethiopia has the largest concentration of Italian schools and cultural institutes in Africa (such as the Scuola Statale Italiana of Addis Abeba), which foster and promote Italian and Ethiopian culture and are free to the public. [20]
Italian East Africa (Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) [3] was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa.It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly subjugated Ethiopian Empire.
The Italian claim that Menelik was aware of Article XVII turning his nation into an Italian protectorate seems unlikely given that the Emperor Menelik sent letters to Queen Victoria in late 1889 and was informed in the replies in early 1890 that Britain could not have diplomatic relations with Ethiopia on the account of Article XVII of the ...
The Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928, [1] also known as the Italo–Ethiopian Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration, [2] was a treaty signed between Italy and Ethiopia on 2 August 1928. Nigiste Negest [ nb 1 ] Zewditu I ruled Ethiopia at the time of this treaty, but it was the 36-year-old Ras [ nb 2 ] Tafari Makonnen who represented the government ...
A map of Ethiopian Empire, the land at the centre of the crisis.. The Abyssinia Crisis, [nb 1] also known in Italy as the Walwal incident, [nb 2] was an international crisis in 1935 that originated in a dispute over the town of Walwal, which then turned into a conflict between Fascist Italy and the Ethiopian Empire (then commonly known as "Abyssinia").
Fighting between Ethiopian forces and the Italian military continued until February 1937, and subsequent guerrilla resistance against Italy persisted until 1939. [5] [6] In 1941, during World War II, Ethiopia was liberated from Italian control by Allied forces in the East African campaign, but an Italian guerrilla war continued until
Article 10 dealt with disputes between residents of Ethiopian and Italian territories and stated that these disputes were to be resolved by delegates from both territories. Article 11 said that if an Ethiopian resident died in an Italian territory or vice versa, his/her properties would be given to the territory he/she belongs to.