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The southwestern littoral of the Red Sea, opposite Yemen.
Ruler Name | Start Year | End Year | Notes | Dynasty | Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
W'rn Hywt | fl. c. 700 BCE | ? | Bruce's notes are orderly but incomplete, wiki is chaos but has more complete records; this is a blend of the two as accurately as possible. | Yg'd | Eritrea |
Rd'm | ? | ? | Eritrea | ||
Shr'n Rbh | ? | ? | Eritrea | ||
Shr'n Lmn | ? | ? | Eritrea | ||
Unknown | ? | ? | Eritrea | ||
To Axum | c. 500 BCE | c. 700 CE | Eritrea | ||
To Beja Tribes | c. 700 | c. 1400 | Central and Northern Eritrea. | Eritrea | |
To Harar Tribes | c. 1200 | c. 1400 | Southern Eritrea | Eritrea | |
To Sennar Tribes | c. 1300 | c. 1500 | Western Eritrea. | Eritrea | |
Unknown | ? | ? | Kingdom of Bahr-Negash | Eritrea | |
Yeshaq | 1557 | 1578 | Opposed by Ottoman Empire. | Eritrea | |
To Ottoman Empire | 1557 | 1865 | Massawa and environs. | Eritrea | |
Keki Abdi Pasha | 1687 | 1693 | Eritrea | ||
Mehmed Pasha | 1693 | 1693 | Eritrea | ||
Abaza Mustafa Pasha | 1693 | 1694 | Eritrea | ||
Misirli Mehmed Pasha | 1694 | 1695 | Eritrea | ||
Gümrükçü Süleyman Pasha | 1695 | 1695 | Eritrea | ||
Amir bin Ali | 1695 | 1720 | Eritrea | ||
Unknown | 1720 | 1770 | Eritrea | ||
Hasan Amir | 1770 | 1773 | Eritrea | ||
Muhammad Amir I | 1773 | 1787 | Eritrea | ||
Uthman Amir | 1787 | 1793 | Eritrea | ||
Ahmad | 1793 | 1793 | Eritrea | ||
Unknown | 1793 | 1813 | Eritrea | ||
Idris bin Uthman | 1813 | 1826 | Eritrea | ||
Turkci Bilmaz | 1826 | 1833 | Eritrea | ||
Yahya Ahmad | 1833 | 1840 | Eritrea | ||
Muhammad Yahya | 1840 | 1844 | Eritrea | ||
Hasan Idris | 1844 | 1845 | Eritrea | ||
Muhammad Amir II | 1845 | 1846 | Eritrea | ||
Hasan Idris | r. 1846 | 1848 | Eritrea | ||
To Ottoman Suzerainty | 1848 | 1863 | Eritrea | ||
Rustam Agha | 1848 | 1863 | Eritrea | ||
To Egypt | 1866 | 1890 | Eritrea | ||
Ismail Haqqi | 1866 | 1867 | Eritrea | ||
Omar Agha | 1867 | 1867 | Eritrea | ||
Ibrahim Pasha | 1867 | 1869 | Eritrea | ||
Muhammad Rasikh Bey | 1869 | 1869 | Eritrea | ||
Abdallah Halil Efendi | 1869 | 1869 | Eritrea | ||
Hasan Bey Rifat | 1869 | 1870 | Eritrea | ||
Abdalkadir (Abd el-kader) | 1870 | 1870 | Eritrea | ||
Aladdin Pasha Siddiq | 1870 | 1871 | Eritrea | ||
Ahmad Mumtaz Pasha | 1871 | 1871 | Eritrea | ||
Hajj Aman | 1871 | 1871 | Eritrea | ||
Johan Alber Werner Munzinger Pasha | 1871 | 1874 | Eritrea | ||
Arakel Bey Nubar (Abroyan) | 1874 | 1875 | Eritrea | ||
Uthman Rifiq Pasha | 1875 | 1876 | Eritrea | ||
Mohammad Ratib Pasha | 1876 | 1879 | Eritrea | ||
Khurshid Bey Pertev | 1879 | 1882 | Eritrea | ||
Giulio Pestalozza | 1882 | 1883 | Commandant | Eritrea | |
Muhammad Muhtar Pasha | 1883 | 1884 | Eritrea | ||
Mason Bey | 1884 | 1884 | Eritrea | ||
William Nathan Wrighte Hewett | 1884 | 1884 | Acting. | Eritrea | |
Izzet Bey | 1884 | 1885 | Eritrea | ||
To Italian Civil Commissioners of Assab | 1885 | 1885 | Eritrea | ||
Giuseppe Sapeto | 1885 | 1885 | Eritrea | ||
Giovanni Branchi | 1885 | 1885 | Eritrea | ||
To Italy | 1885 | 1941 | Eritrea | ||
Pietro Caimi | 1885 | 1885 | Eritrea | ||
Tancredi Saletta | 1885 | 1886 | Eritrea | ||
Carlo Gené | 1886 | 1886 | Eritrea | ||
Antonio Baldissera | 1886 | 1887 | Eritrea | ||
Alessandro Asinari di San Marzano | 1887 | 1890 | Eritrea | ||
Baldassarre Orero | 1890 | 1890 | Eritrea | ||
Antonio Gandolfi | 1890 | 1892 | Eritrea | ||
Oreste Baratieri | 1892 | 1896 | Eritrea | ||
Antonio Baldissera | r. 1896 | 1897 | Eritrea | ||
Ferdinando Martini | 1897 | 1907 | Eritrea | ||
Giuseppe Salvago Raggi | 1907 | 1915 | Eritrea | ||
Giovanni Cerrina Feroni | 1915 | 1916 | Acting | Eritrea | |
Giacomo De Martino | 1916 | 1919 | Eritrea | ||
Carlo De Simone | 1919 | 1920 | Eritrea | ||
Guglielmo Nasi | 1920 | 1921 | Eritrea | ||
Giovanni Cerrina Feroni | r. 1921 | 1923 | Eritrea | ||
Jacopo Gasparini | 1923 | 1928 | Eritrea | ||
Corrado Zoli | 1928 | 1930 | Eritrea | ||
Riccardo Astuto dei Duchi de Lucchesi | 1930 | 1935 | Eritrea | ||
Carlo De Simone | r. 1935 | 1935 | Acting | Eritrea | |
Emilio De Bono | 1935 | 1935 | Eritrea | ||
Pietro Badoglio | 1935 | 1936 | Eritrea | ||
Alfredo Guzzoni | 1936 | 1937 | Eritrea | ||
Vincenzo De Feo | 1937 | 1937 | Eritrea | ||
Giuseppe Daodice | 1937 | 1940 | Eritrea | ||
Luigi Frusci | 1940 | 1941 | Eritrea | ||
To Great Britain | 1941 | 1951 | Eritrea | ||
Sir William Platt | 1941 | 1942 | Eritrea | ||
Stephen Hemsley Longrigg | 1942 | 1944 | Eritrea | ||
C. D. McCarthy | 1944 | 1945 | Eritrea | ||
John Meredith Benoy | 1945 | 1946 | Eritrea | ||
Francis Greville Drew | 1946 | 1951 | Eritrea | ||
To UN Trust Territory | 1951 | 1962 | Eritrea | ||
Duncan Camerone Cumming | 1951 | 1952 | Eritrea | ||
Tedla Bairu | 1952 | 1955 | Eritrea | ||
Asfaha Woldemikael | 1955 | 1959 | Eritrea | ||
Abiya Abebe | 1959 | 1964 | Eritrea | ||
To Ethiopia | 1962 | 1991 | Eritrea | ||
Ras Asrate Medhin Kassa | 1964 | 1970 | Eritrea | ||
Iskinder Desta | 1970 | 1974 | Eritrea | ||
Amanuel Amde Mikael | 1974 | 1975 | Eritrea | ||
Getachew Nadew | 1975 | 1977 | Eritrea | ||
Dawit Wolde Giorgis | 1979 | 1983 | Eritrea | ||
Afework Wolemikael | 1989 | 1991 | Eritrea | ||
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan | 1991 | 1991 | Acting; 1 week. | Eritrea | |
To Eritrea | 1991 | Present | Eritrea | ||
Isaias Afwerki | 1991 | Present | Eritrea |
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