Event
The Battle of Adwa
Battle · 1 March 1896
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The decisive 1896 battle in which Ethiopian forces under Menelik II defeated an invading Italian army, preserving Ethiopian sovereignty and reshaping the politics of the era.
Schema-test stub (draft). Lens: sovereignty preserved against colonial conquest and the political consolidation that followed. Full content to follow.
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- Raymond Jonas, The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).