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Antonio Cecchi

1849–1896 · 19th century

Antonio Cecchi was an Italian explorer and colonial official. On an expedition to the Gibe region of south-western Ethiopia he and Giovanni Chiarini were held captive in the kingdom of Gera from 1879, where Chiarini died, until Cecchi's release in 1880. He later served Italy as a consul and in Somalia, and was killed in an ambush at Lafoole in 1896.

Antonio Cecchi
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Kingdom of Gera

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