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Percorso: USC Shoah Foundation Institute Thesaurus
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(PIQ) Etiopia CercaDefinizione
Location: Western Africa, bordered in 2000 by Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, the Sudan and Eritrea.
Capital city: Addis Ababa.
History:
An independent entity for almost 2,000 years, modern Ethiopia established itself in the mid-nineteenth century. Italy invaded Ethiopia in October 1935. Along with Eritrea and Somaliland, it became Italian East Africa and was liberated by the Allies in 1941. The Ethiopian Jewish community lived in the city of Gondar before their immigration to Israel in the 1980s and 1990s. Eritrea split off from from Ethiopia and became an independent nation in 1993. (en-US)
Fonte
Microsoft Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2001. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Corporation, 2000.