People of Eritrean Descent - Germans of Eritrean Descent, Italians of Eritrean Descent, Swedish People of Eritrean Descent, Italian Eritreans (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Germans of Eritrean Descent, Italians of Eritrean Descent, Swedish People of Eritrean Descent, Italian Eritreans, Henok Goitom, Afrob, Dawit Isaak, Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab, Adiam Dymott, Senait Ghebrehiwet Mehari, Mariam Osman Sherifay. Excerpt: Italian, Tigrinya Italian Eritreans (or Eritrean Italians) are Eritrean-born descendants of Italian settlers as well as Italian long-term residents in Eritrea. Their ancestry dates back from the beginning of the Italian colonization of Eritrea at the end of the 19th century, but only after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935 they settled in large numbers. In the 1939 census of Eritrea there were more than 75,000 Eritrean Italians, most of them (53,000) living in Asmara. Many Italian settlers got out of their colony after its conquest by the Allies in November 1941 and they were reduced to only 38,000 by 1946. Although many of the remaining Italians stayed during the decolonization process after World War II and are actually assimilated to the Eritrean society, a few are stateless today, as none of them were given citizenship unless through marriage or -more rarely- by having it conferred upon them by the State. From 1882 to 1941 Eritrea was ruled by the Kingdom of Italy. In those sixty years Eritrea was populated - mainly in the area of Asmara - by groups of Italian colonists, who moved there from the beginning of the XX century. The Italian Eritreans grew from 4,000 during World War I to nearly 100,000 at the beginning of World War II. The Italians brought to Eritrea a huge development of Catholicism and by the 1940 nearly half the Eritrean population was Catholic, mainly in Asmara where many churches were built. Italian administration of Eritrea brought improvements in the medical and agric... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19786473