Hamid Idris Awate (Tigrinya: ሓምድ እድሪስ ዓዋተ; 10 April 1910 – 28 May 1962) was an Eritrean revolutionary and prominent guerrilla commander, and a symbol...
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and musician Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist Hamid Arzulu (b. 1937), Azerbaijani poet and writer Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean...
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movement in Cairo, but the first act of armed resistance was led by Hamid Idris Awate. Over the course of the 1960s, the ELF was able to obtain support...
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through relatives back home, punish them for speaking out". Awate named itself after Hamid Idris Awate for his "fighting against overwhelming odds and standing...
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Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1961. In September 1961, ELF head Hamid Idris Awate launched the Eritrean armed struggle for independence. During 1962...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dahalik and the other dialects is between 24% and 51%. Ibrahim Sultan Hamid Idris Awate "Africa :: Eritrea — The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency"...
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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...
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Askaris in Eritrea were drawn from local Nilotic populations, including Hamid Idris Awate, who reputedly had some Nara ancestry. Of these troops, the first...
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urban wage laborers. The ELM, under the leadership of the Eritrean Hamid Idris Awate, engaged in clandestine political activities intended to cultivate...
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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...
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Eritrean colonial troops (like the hero of Eritrean independence, Hamid Idris Awate) until the Italian armistice in September 1943. Eritrea was placed...
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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...
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1961, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), under the leadership of Hamid Idris Awate, waged an armed struggle for independence. In 1962, Emperor Haile...
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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...
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Italian guerrillas in Ethiopia. Another notable guerrilla leader was Hamid Idris Awate, a father of the Eritrean Liberation Front. Other Italian officers...
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to the formation of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1961. Hamid Idris Awate officially began armed resistance against the government of Ethiopia...
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(Comandante Marcial) Joaquín Villalobos Ana María Isaias Afewerki Hamid Idris Awate Woldeab Woldemariam Alfred Käärmann Rummu Jüri August Sabbe Ülo Voitka...
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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...
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Eritrean War of Independence begins with the Battle of Adal in which Hamid Idris Awate and his companions shoot at Ethiopian police and military. The war...
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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...
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Askaris in Eritrea were drawn from local Nilotic populations, including Hamid Idris Awate, who reputedly had some Nara ancestry. Of these troops, the first...
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Haile Selassie Amedeo Guillet Francesco De Martini Other commanders: Hamid Idris Awate Paolo Aloisi Leopoldo Rizzo Strength Tens of thousands 7,000 (including...
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Liberation Front which was led by Idris Awate. The Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) fighters led by Hamid Idris Awate attacked government police stations...
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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...
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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...
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Eritrean Liberation Front Ethiopian Empire Commanders and leaders Hamid Idris Awate Unknown Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties and losses 1 killed Unknown...
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