Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (Ethiopia)
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in Ethiopia | |||||||||||
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| 1941–1944 | |||||||||||
 Flag | |||||||||||
| Government | Military administration | ||||||||||
| Chief Political Officer | |||||||||||
• 1941–1942 | Phillip Mitchell | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 20 January 1941 | |||||||||||
| 27 November 1941 | |||||||||||
| 31 January 1942 | |||||||||||
| 19 December 1944 | |||||||||||
| Currency | East African shilling | ||||||||||
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The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in Ethiopia was a British military occupation administration in Ethiopia during East African Campaign of World War II. It expanded from early 1941 to the final Italian defeat in November and ended in January 1942 with the signing of the Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement.[1][2] In Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie was allowed to return and to claim his throne, but the OETA authorities ruled the country for some time before full sovereignty was restored to Ethiopia in 1944. However, some regions remained under British control for more years.
References
[edit]- ^ Shinn, David H.; Ofcansky, Thomas P. (11 April 2013). Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia. Scarecrow Press. pp. 309–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7457-2.
- ^ Harold G. Marcus. Haile Selassie and Italians, 1941–1943. Northeast African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (New Series) 2003, pp. 19–25. (Online version of the article) Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine.