What the records say
- When
- 27 Oct 1916
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 8.03° N, 39.09° E
- Location
- Segale, 40 miles north of Addis Ababa
- Outcome
- Zewditu loyalist victory Lij Iyasu's chief supporter crushed, removing his ability to keep the Imperial throne
- Belligerents
- Loyalists to Lij Iyasu vs Loyalists to Zewditu
- Fix
- location names no country; north of Addis Ababa
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Battle of Segale
1916 civil conflict in the Ethiopian Empire
The Battle of Segale was a civil conflict in the Ethiopian Empire between the supporters of Empress regent Zewditu and Lij Iyasu on 27 October 1916, and resulted in victory for Zewditu. Paul B. Henze states that "Segale was Ethiopia's greatest battle since Adwa" (1896).
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael of Wollo, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Unterstützer Zauditus besiegen Iyasu und seinen Vater in der Schlacht von Segale entscheidend”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page