Word: sidamo
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...
Knowing that discouraged Ras Desta Demtu was preparing another stand in the narrow Sidamo gorges, feeling that the time had come for prudence, General Graziani at week's end halted his advance, pulled his advance posts back 60 miles to Noghelli...
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