Definitions for Adowa

Adowa A·do·wa

Spelling: [ah-doo-wah]
IPA: /ˈɑ dʊˌwɑ/

Adowa is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Adowa (aadow).

Definitions for Adowa

noun

  1. Aduwa.
  2. a town in N Ethiopia: Italians defeated 1896.

Examples for Adowa

I wrote letters to K., and gave them to Goubasee to take to Adowa.

Thus a month was lost, during which the Abyssinian army advanced to Hausen, a position slightly south of Adowa.

At Fremona, not far from Adowa, are the ruins of a Jesuit convent, resembling rather a fort than the abode of men of peace.

We were frequently delayed by demands from local chiefs for toll dues, and did not arrive at Adowa till December 6.

Mansfield Parkyns, in his very entertaining book on Abyssinia, gives an account of the silversmiths at Adowa.

He had come from Adowa, and, having very little money, was nearly starved on the road.

The contagion from Masuah and Adowa had spread itself all over Gondar.

Mangash made no reply, and Baratieri crossing the Mareb advanced to Adowa, but four days later was obliged to return northwards.

Game is abundant, and elephants were in the neighbourhood, as the hunters from Adowa had been here.

In Italy the news of the defeat of Adowa caused deep discouragement and dismay.

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