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On March 1, 1896, Ethiopian forces commanded by Emperor Menelik II defeated the Italian army at the Battle of Adwa. It was the first time an African nation had defeated a European power.

The Ethiopian victory at Adwa prevented the Italians from establishing imperial rule over Ethiopia then.

However, forty years later the Italians conquered Ethiopia and established the short-lived colony of Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian East Africa). The colony existed from 1936 through mid-1941, when the Italians were expelled permanently.
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Detail, "Battle of Adwa"

Author A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest

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