instance_of de bono's invasion of abyssinia
Eritrea ( or ), officially the ___MASK27___ of Eritrea , is a country in the Horn of Africa . With its ___MASK10___ at Asmara , it is bordered by Sudan in the west , Ethiopia in the south , and Djibouti in the southeast . The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red ___MASK52___ . The nation has a total area of approximately , and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands . Its toponym " Eritrea " is based on the Greek name for the Red ___MASK52___ , which was first adopted for Italian Eritrea in 1890 . Emilio De Bono ( 19 ___MASK21___ 1866  11 ___MASK65___ 1944 ) was an Italian General , fascist ___MASK83___ , Marshal , and member of the Fascist Grand Council (" Gran Consiglio del Fascismo "). De Bono fought in the Italo - Turkish War , World War I , and the Second Italo - Abyssinian War . ___MASK64___ I ( WWI or WW1 ), also known as the First ___MASK64___ , or the Great War , was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 ___MASK4___ 1918 . More than 70 million ___MASK7___ personnel , including 60 million Europeans , were mobilised in one of the largest wars in ___MASK35___ . Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war ( including the victims of a number of genocides ), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents ' technological and industrial sophistication , and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare . It was one of the deadliest conflicts in ___MASK35___ , and paved the way for major political changes , including revolutions in many of the nations involved . Djibouti (; ', , ), officially the ___MASK89___ of Djibouti , is a country located in the Horn of Africa . It is bordered by Eritrea in the north , Ethiopia in the west and south , and Somalia in the southeast . The remainder of the border is formed by the Red ___MASK52___ and the Gulf of Aden at the east . Djibouti occupies a total area of just . The Italo - Turkish or Turco - Italian ___MASK20___ (" Tripolitanian ___MASK20___ "; also known in Italy as " Guerra di Libia ", " Libyan ___MASK20___ ") was fought between the Ottoman ___MASK12___ ( ___MASK61___ ) and the Kingdom of Italy from September 29 , 1911 , to October 18 , 1912 . As a result of this ___MASK38___ , Italy captured the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet ( province ), of which the main sub - provinces (" sanjaks ") were Fezzan , Cyrenaica , and Tripoli itself . These territories together formed what became known as Italian Libya . The Dahlak ___MASK24___ ( Ge ' ez :  ) is an ___MASK34___ located in the Red ___MASK52___ near Massawa , Eritrea . It consists of two large and 124 small islands . The pearl fisheries of the archipelago have been famous since Roman times and still produce a substantial number of pearls . The Red ___MASK52___ ( also the Erythraean ___MASK52___ ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and Asia . The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden . To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula , the Gulf of Aqaba , and the Gulf of Suez ( leading to the Suez Canal ). The Red ___MASK52___ is a Global 200 ecoregion . The ___MASK52___ is underlain by the Red ___MASK52___ Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley . Ethiopia ('), officially known as the Federal Democratic ___MASK89___ of Ethiopia "' (     , " yetiyoya Fdralaw Dmokirasyaw Rpebilk " ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa . It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast , Djibouti and Somalia to the east , Sudan and South Sudan to the west , and Kenya to the south . With nearly 100 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world , as well as the second - most populous nation on the African ___MASK48___ after Nigeria . It occupies a total area of , and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa . The Horn of Africa (, " yäafrika qänd ", " al - qarn al -' afrq ") ( shortened to HOA ) is a ___MASK18___ in Northeast Africa . It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian ___MASK52___ and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden . The area is the easternmost projection of the African ___MASK48___ . The Horn of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti , Eritrea , Ethiopia , and Somalia . The ansh Islands are an ___MASK34___ in the Red ___MASK52___ . Most of them are a part of Yemen , but before 1998 they were claimed by Eritrea as well . After a case in an international court under the guidance of Abdul Karim al - Iryani , Yemen was granted full ownership of the larger Islands , and Eritrea was awarded the peripheral islands to the southwest . De Bono ' s invasion of Abyssinia took place during the opening stages of the Second Italo - Abyssinian ___MASK20___ . Italian General Emilio De Bono invaded northern Abyssinia from staging areas in the Italian colony of Eritrea on what was known as the `` northern front . '' Sudan (" as - Sdn ", ), also known as North Sudan and officially the ___MASK89___ of the Sudan (" Jumhriyyat as - Sdn "), is a country in Northern Africa . It is bordered by Egypt to the north , the Red ___MASK52___ , Eritrea , and Ethiopia to the east , South Sudan to the south , the Central African ___MASK89___ to the southwest , Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest . It is the third largest country in Africa . The River Nile divides the country into eastern and western halves . Before the Sudanese Civil War , South Sudan was part of Sudan but broke away in 2011 . Its predominant religion is Islam . Asmara (" Asmera "), known locally as Asmera ( meaning " They [ feminine plural ] made them unite " in Tigrinya ), is the ___MASK10___ city and largest settlement in Eritrea . Home to a population of just over ___MASK91___ , 000 , 000 inhabitants , it sits at an elevation of . The city is located at the tip of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Eritrean highlands and the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Ethiopia .