THE ambitions of Italy to build up an empire in East Africa were evident even to such a casual visitor as I was. My reasons for being in Addis Ababa were strictly scientific, but if one is to do ...

ROME, Oct. 4, 1935 (UP) --"Tactical" airplane raids over an area 50 miles to the south of Aduwa in Ethiopia were admitted today in an official communiqué. League of Nations Council agrees to meet on ...

ROME, Oct. 4, 1935 (UP) --"Tactical" airplane raids over an area 50 miles to the south of Aduwa in Ethiopia were admitted today in an official communiqué. A general advance of the army in the north ...

The first adunata (general assembly) of the Italian people occurred Oct. 2, 1935, marked the beginning of the War in Ethiopia. At the second adunata, held early last week, the occupation of Addis ...

In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia in a brutal campaign driven by imperial ambition, revenge for a past defeat, and Mussolini’s desire to build a new Roman Empire. This video explores the ...

Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024. pp. 376. Illus., plates, maps, gloss., biblio. £33.75 / $69.95. ISBN: 1804512354 Italy’s Ethiopian Empire The ...

Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King” is a masterpiece. Here’s why. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. Though a member of the League of Nations and a country that could trace its history as an organized ...

As a mayoral commission evaluates dozens of Chicago monuments and statues deemed problematic, it will confront one memorial that has long been the focus of a dispute: the Balbo column in Burnham Park.