Hamid Idris Awate (Tigrinya: ሓምድ እድሪስ ዓዋተ; 10 April 1910 – 28 May 1962) was an Eritrean revolutionary and prominent guerrilla commander, and a symbol...

Ethiopia affirming their opposition to Eritrean insurgency movements. Hamid Idris Awate was a former soldier when the Italians controlled Eritrea and Ethiopia...

through relatives back home, punish them for speaking out". Awate named itself after Hamid Idris Awate for his "fighting against overwhelming odds and standing...

and musician Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist Hamid Arzulu (b. 1937), Azerbaijani poet and writer Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean...

independence movement led by the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1961. Hamid Idris Awate officially began the Eritrean armed struggle for independence on 1...

accepted the flag as a unifying symbol of Eritrea. On September 1, 1961, Hamid Idris Awate brought back the blue flag suppressed by Haile Selassie. Eritrean...

Day. The rebels who participated were: Hamid Idris Awate (ELF leader) Abdu M. Fayd Ibrahim M. Ali Humed Qadif Awate M. Fayd Mohammed Bayraq (taken prisoner...

Abreha Ogbe Abraha Ali Abdu Ahmed Ibrahim Sultan Ali Aman Mikael Andom Hamid Idris Awate Tedla Bairu Osman Saleh Mohammed Zerai Deres Araya Desta Ali Said...

fought for the independence of Eritrea after WWII. Among these was Hamid Idris Awate, nicknamed the Father of Eritrea because he fired the first shots...

Eritrean colonial troops (like the hero of Eritrean independence, Hamid Idris Awate) until the Italian armistice in September 1943. Eritrea was placed...

Dahalik and the other dialects is between 24% and 51%. Ibrahim Sultan Hamid Idris Awate "Africa :: Eritrea — The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency"...

consistently supported Ethiopian rule. In the 1940s they were raided by Hamid Idris Awate and many of their villages were destroyed, another raid by the ELF...

urban wage laborers. The ELM, under the leadership of the Eritrean Hamid Idris Awate, engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate...

1961, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), under the leadership of Hamid Idris Awate, waged an armed struggle for independence. In 1962, Emperor Haile...

appointed as mayor of Kassala the future hero of Eritrean independence, Hamid Idris Awate. In mid-January 1941, the Italians withdrew from the city and a British...

Askaris in Eritrea were drawn from local Nilotic populations, including Hamid Idris Awate, who reputedly had some Nara ancestry. Of these troops, the first...

to the formation of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1961. Hamid Idris Awate officially began armed resistance against the government of Ethiopia...

Italian guerrillas in Ethiopia. Another notable guerrilla leader was Hamid Idris Awate, a father of the Eritrean Liberation Front. Other Italian officers...

political body known as the Supreme Council. On September 1, 1961, Hamid Idris Awate and his ELF unit attacked an Ethiopian police unit in western Eritrea...

is situated near the location of a monument erected to memorialize Hamid Idris Awate, the man who started the Eritrean War of Independence. A dairy co-op...

(Comandante Marcial) Joaquín Villalobos Ana María Isaias Afewerki Hamid Idris Awate Woldeab Woldemariam Alfred Käärmann Rummu Jüri August Sabbe Ülo Voitka...

Independence officially begins, with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate. The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held. The Soviet...

extensive damage. Outside Teseney, just beyond Haykota, is a monument to Hamid Idris Awate, who fired the first shots in the Eritrean liberation struggle in...

Askaris in Eritrea were drawn from local Nilotic populations, including Hamid Idris Awate, who reputedly had some Nara ancestry. Of these troops, the first...

Haile Selassie Amedeo Guillet Francesco De Martini Other commanders: Hamid Idris Awate Paolo Aloisi Leopoldo Rizzo Strength Tens of thousands 7,000 (including...

that was temporarily annexed (the mayor of Kassala was Eritrean hero Hamid Idris Awate) until spring 1941. In those months the Allies invaded Italian Eritrea...

Liberation Front member Hamid Idris Awate, leader of a group of 11 fighters, against Ethiopian government forces at the Barka district. Awate would be killed...

Liberation Front which was led by Idris Awate. The Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) fighters led by Hamid Idris Awate attacked government police stations...

Eritrean Liberation Front  Ethiopian Empire Commanders and leaders Hamid Idris Awate Unknown Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties and losses 1 killed Unknown...