Eritrea Province
| Province of Eritrea ኣውራጃ ኤርትራ مقاطعة إريتريا | |||||||||
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Provincial government | |||||||||
| Governor-General | |||||||||
• 1962–1964 | Abiye Abebe | ||||||||
• 1989–1991 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan | ||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||
• Autonomy withdrawn | 14 November 1962 | ||||||||
• De facto Independence | 29 May 1991 | ||||||||
• De jure Independence | 24 May 1993 | ||||||||
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The Province of Eritrea (
Arabic: مقاطعة إريتريا) was a province in the far north part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Asmara. Eritrea gained its independence in 1993 following the Eritrean War of Independence
.
History
The region was historically called
Eritrean Autonomous State, federated with the Ethiopian Empire under the sovereignty of the Ethiopian crown.[1]
Autonomy was withdrawn on 14 November 1962, following the beginning of the Eritrean War of Independence in 1961. After the Ethiopian revolution in 1974 the province was put under the reign of the Derg and later the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The province achieved de jure independence under the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in 1991 and was officially abolished by Ethiopia in 1993, becoming the independent state of Eritrea.[2]
References
- JSTOR 45193981.
- ^ "Eritrea profile - Timeline". 15 November 2018 – via www.bbc.com.