Adi Tekelezan (in Tigrinya, Ad Tekelezan in Tigre) is a small town in the Anseba region of Eritrea. It is located on the route between Asmara and Keren. It is a thriving commercial center in Eritrea with a population estimated at 4,000. Tigre is a Semitic language descended from Geez and is closely related to Tigrinya and Amharic. ... Anseba is a region of Eritrea. ... Asmara Asmara (formerly Asmera) is the capital city and largest settlement in Eritrea, home to a population of around 579,000 people. ... Keren is the third largest city in Eritrea, lying north west of Asmara, with a population of around 75,000 people. ...

History

The town was a stop on the ancient Christian pilgrimage to holy sites. The area was first inhabatited by the Tigre but Tigrinya people immigrated to the region. The Tigre are an ethnic group of Eritrea who speak the Tigre language. ... The Tigray-Tigrinya are an ethnic group on the Horn of Africa whose language is called Tigrinya. ...

In the 1920's the Italian's constructed the Asmara-Keren highway through the town of Adi Tekelezan. Because of this it was also a very popular rest stop and a marketplace grew up in the town. The town was also the location of the Italian effort to defend Asmara against the oncoming British forces during World War II.^[1]

During the time of cooperation between the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) and Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) jointly garrisoned the town but were forced to withdraw after the Soviet Union began to assist Ethiopia's war effort. Wikipedia does not yet have a page called Eritrean Liberation Front. ... The Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) was an armed organization that fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. ...

References

1. ^ Killion, Tom (1998). Historical Dictionary of Eritrea. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810834375.

Coordinates: 15°34′02″N, 38°46′43″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...