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Terme Obelisk (286 words) |
 | Sometime and somebody transported it to Rome for decorating the Iseum, the Temple of Isis, and it was discovered underground in Iseum by Roman archeologist, Rodolfo Lanciani and his team in 1883. |
| 4 years later, it was happened in January 1887 that all 548 soldiers of Italian squad were killed by the Ethiopian troop at the Battle of Dogali, during the First Ethiopian War (1885-1896). |
| The names of the Italian soldiers who were killed at the Battle of Dogali were inscribed on the pedestrial. |
| The Battle of Adwa Recalled (432 words) |
| The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was a great turning point in Ethiopian history - and by extension in the history of the entire African continent. |
| This stretched from the Battle of Dogali in 1887 to that of Mai Chew in 1936. |
| The decision of the Berlusconi government in Italy to return the Axum obleisk after sixty-six years, if it is in fact honoured, marks a hopeful sign - even though the return from Italy of the Ethiopian aeroplane Tsehai and of the Ministry of the Pen archives has apparently not yet been finalised. |
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