| | African imperialisme - Ethiopia and Eritrea |
 | | During the European Scramble for Africa the ports of Assab and Massawa became Italian colonies in 1882 and 1885 respectively, and in 1890 the were incorporated into the newly formed Italian colony of Eritrea which included the whole of the coastal strip between British Sudan and French Somaliland. |
 | | Between 1936 and 1941, as part of the Italian East African Empire, Eritrea, along with Italian Somaliland, was ruled together with Ethiopia for the first time. |
 | | Ethiopia held the allegiance of the plateau area but until the nineteenth century showed little interest in the coast, being for most of recent history a land-locked Christian empire dependent on its highlands for isolated survival from surrounding Islam. |
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