Timeline of Asmara

Summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Asmara, Eritrea. Asmara was under Italian colonial rule from 1889 until 1941.

Prior to 20th century edit

  • circa 1515 CE - Four villages merge to become "Asmera" (traditional date).[1]
  • 16th century - Asmara sacked by Muslim forces.[1]
  • 1889 - 3 August: Asmara occupied by Italian forces under command of Baldissera.[2]
  • 1895 - Governor's Palace built.[3]
  • 1900 - Capital of colonial Italian Eritrea moved to Asmara from Massawa.[4]

20th century edit

21st century edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Johnson 2005.
  2. ^ Treccani 1929.
  3. ^ Asmara Heritage Project 2016.
  4. ^ "Eritrea". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 0203409957.
  5. ^ "Il Congresso Coloniale all'Asmara". Rivista geografica italiana e Bollettino della Società di studi geografici [it] e coloniali in Firenze (in Italian). 12. 1905.
  6. ^ "Achèvement du chemin de fer de Massaoua à Asmara". Annales de géographie [fr] (in French). 21. 1912 – via Persee.fr.
  7. ^ "Italy: Colony of Eritrea". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
  8. ^ Asmara italiana
  9. ^ a b Podestà 2015.
  10. ^ a b c d Bereketeab 2003.
  11. ^ Anderson 2016.
  12. ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Asmara, Eritrea". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  13. ^ "A History of Cities in 50 Buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
  14. ^ a b "Eritrea Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  15. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Eritrea". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Ethiopia", Statesman's Yearbook, London: Macmillan & Co., 1963. via Google Books
  17. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
  18. ^ "New gun battles rage in Asmara", New York Times, 20 February 1975
  19. ^ "Ethiopia Is Said to Seal Off Eritrea City After Fighting", New York Times, 31 July 1975
  20. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ a b "Eritreans, Fresh From Victory, Must Now Govern", New York Times, 16 June 1991
  22. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" (PDF). Demographic Yearbook 2010. United Nations Statistics Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-10.
  23. ^ a b "Eritrea: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
  24. ^ "Eritrea Marks Independence After Years Under Ethiopia", New York Times, 25 May 1993
  25. ^ Africa's 'Little Rome' survives conflict, seeks U.N. accolade, Reuters, 9 March 2016
  26. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography edit

  • "Asmara" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 763.
  • "Asmara", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1929
  • Redie Bereketeab (2003). "Asmara, Eritrea". In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • Karin Caesar; Katarina Rosengren (2003). Analysis of the Situation for Cyclists in Asmara (PDF) (MA). Sweden: Lund University.  
  • David P. Johnson, Jr. (2005). "Asmara, Eritrea". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 278+. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
  • Marie Bridonneau (2006). "Kushet, un village périurbain de l'agglomération d'Asmara: politique d'aménagement et recomposition spatiale". Chroniques yéménites [fr] (in French). 13 (13). doi:10.4000/cy.1384 – via Revues.org.  
  • Edward Denison; et al. (2007) [2003]. Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City. Merrell. ISBN 9781858943824.
  • Eritrea: National and Cities Urban Profile: Asmara, Massawa & Mendefera. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2008.  
  • Belula Tecle-Misghina (2014). Asmara, an urban history. Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura. ISBN 978-88-6812-354-3.
  • Gian Luca Podestà (2015). "Asmara and Dek'emhare: Cities of Work, Cities of Leisure". Diacronie (21). doi:10.4000/diacronie.1919 – via Revues.org. ISSN 2038-0925.  
  • Sean Anderson (2016). "Asmara". Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea: An In-visible Colony, 1890-1941. Routledge. pp. 69–146. ISBN 978-1-317-09478-4.
  • Asmara Heritage Project (2016), Asmara: Africa's Modernist City, Eritrea: Central Region Administration, Nomination Dossier for UNESCO World Heritage Listing

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