Talk:Asmara

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Have a listen to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/africalives/features/listenagain.shtml

On the BBC, a very interesting report

Contents 1 Fair use image 2 Gallery 3 Asmara became Italian on August 3, 1889. 4 Asmara in WWII.

[edit] Fair use image

The pic of the building is fair use. I suspect its possible for someone else to get a pic of it, hence its marked as {{fairusereplace}}. 68.39.174.238 05:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery

I have added some pictures but am unsure how to organise them into a gallery. I think that many of these pictures accurately represent asmara so could someone arrange them into a gallery for me? Thanks Segafreak2 10:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Asmara became Italian on August 3, 1889.

Asmara, the formar capital of Ras Alula, became Italian on August 3, 1889. General Antonio Baldissera took the town.

[edit] Asmara in WWII.

During WWII Asmara was attacked by the British Royal Air Force (the first air raid took place on June 11, 1940). The British took the town on April 1, 1941 after the bloody battle of Keren.