Gallabat information

The Battle of Gallabat (also called the Battle of Metemma) was an armed conflict fought on 9–10 March 1889 between the Mahdist Sudanese and Ethiopian forces...

Gallabat (Arabic: القلابات) is a village in the Sudanese state of Al Qadarif. It lies at one of the country's border crossing points with Ethiopia; on...

Sudanese Khalifah Abdullah's army whilst leading his army in the Battle of Gallabat. Ethiopia, in roughly its current form, began under the reign of Menelik...

although at the time the settlement was better known as Suk ul-Gallabat ("The market of Gallabat"). Metemma hosts an airport (ICAO code HAMM, IATA ETE). The...

claimed the Zagwe lineage through his father. Killed in the Battle of Gallabat. Previously King of Shewa from 1855 to 1856, and from 1865 to 1889. Ruled...

evacuating the Egyptian garrisons of Amedeb, Algeden, Keren, Ghirra, and Gallabat which had been isolated by the Mahdists, and because of these successes...

was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to his death in 1889 at the Battle of Gallabat, and king of Tigray from 1869 to 1871. During his reign he successfully...

Al Qadarif is the capital of the state; other towns include Doka and Gallabat. It includes the disputed Al Fushqa District. Gedaref State in Sudan is...

the empire. Ras Michael fought with Emperor Yohannes in the Battle of Gallabat against the Mahdist Sudanese. Loyal to the end, he held the dying Yohannes...

slaves were sought after and a major part of slaves sold in Gondar and Gallabat slave markets at Ethiopia-Sudan border, as well as the Massawa and Tajura...

Haymanot defeated the Mahdists in a battle somewhere between Gederaf and Gallabat. In revenge, the following year the Mahdists under the command of Abu Anga...

Yohannes IV was killed in a war with the Mahdist State during the Battle of Gallabat (Metemma). With his dying breath, Yohannes declared his natural son, Dejazemach...

through the Gallabat border crossing. 23 July: Three children of the Fellata tribe were kidnapped by Ethiopian militias from an area near Gallabat and Metemma...

King Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam led a successful counteroffensive as far as Gallabat in Sudan in January 1887. A year later, in January 1888, the Mahdists returned...

Italians. Among its Battle Honours earned are three ‘Garhwali-only’ honours: "Gallabat," "Barentu" and "Massawa." More Battle Honours followed: "Keren," "Amba...

Mahdist state Victory End of Mahdist raids into Ethiopia at the Battle of Gallabat Death of Emperor Yohannes IV End of the Mahdist war in 1889 Italo-Ethiopian...

the size of England (British Somaliland), the border outposts of Karora, Gallabat, Kurmak and Kassala in Sudan and in Kenya, Moyale and Buna. News of the...

marched on Metemma; however, after Yohannes fell in the ensuing Battle of Gallabat, the Ethiopians withdrew.[citation needed] Overall, the war with Ethiopia...

3 Company, Eastern Arab Corps (EAC) of the SDF, from the small fort at Gallabat, just over the border from Metemma, about 320 km (200 mi) south of Kassala...

Premindra Bhagat Indian 1941 Second World War Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners Gallabat, Abyssinia Yeshwant Ghadge Indian 1944* Second World War 5th Mahratta Light...

was posted to the East Arab Corps, serving in the area of Roseires and Gallabat on the borders of Ethiopia, where the SDF patrolled to catch slave traders...

all of Mereb Melash. Following the death of Yohannes at the Battle of Gallabat, Tigray was completely exhausted from decades of uninterrupted wars. It...