The name of an Italian city in Ethiopia?

It was built in the 1930s.

The name of an Italian city in Ethiopia?
There is no Italian city in Ethiopia. Italinan cities are only in Italy.





Addis Ababa was occupied by Mussolini's Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1941; a colonial effort which left an indelible imprint on the city.





The ultimate goal of the fascist leadership of the occupation was to restructure Addis Ababa and colonize it with a surplus from the overpopulated homeland. The only remnants of this scheme are 'suburban' settlements on the outskirts of Addis Ababa at Bishofu and Halata, both of which lacked the infrastructure and amenities to attract many Italians or other foreigners (Pankhurst).





Though the envisioned settlement of the East African Empire by the general population of Italy never materialized, over 130,000 Italians, mostly temporary laborers, lived and worked in Ethiopia during the occupation (Pankhurst). This labor pool, along with an equal proportion of Ethiopian workers, constructed dozens of European style offices, shops, flats and houses. Massive efforts were also made to construct roads in the city and throughout the empire between 1936 and 1937 by 60,000 Italians (Pankhurst). After 1937, the crews, consisting by then of only 10,000 Italians and 50,000 Ethiopians, set to work on connecting Addis Ababa to Italian port cities at Mogadishu, Somalia and Massawa, Eritrea (Pankhurst).





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Reply:This is wrong; I've lived and worked in both Ethiopia and Eritrea. Addis is not "the Italian" city....anyone who has been to both places would easily say Asmara. It's known for its architecture, most of which was designed by Italians. Report Abuse

Reply:I think you might be thinking of Asmara, now the capital of Eritrea which has a lot of Italian architecture in the city centre (cathedral, etc.) (Eritrea was once part of Ethiopia but there was a long between the two that resulted in an independent Eritrea).





from wikipedia:


It was occupied by Italy in 1889 and became the national capital in 1897. In the early 20th century, a railway line was built to the coast, passing through the town of Ghinda, under the direction of Carlo Cavanna. In the late 1930s the Italians changed the face of the town, with a new structure and new buildings; Asmara was called Piccola Roma (Little Rome). Nowadays the major part of buildings are of Italian origin, and shops still have Italian names (e.g. Bar Vittoria, Pasticceria moderna, Casa del formaggio, and Ferramenta).
Reply:what dose this question has to do with Egypt??
Reply:That would be Paris, which is in Greece.
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