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    Werner Munzinger (4 April 1832 in Olten, Switzerland – 14 November 1875 in Aussa, Sultanate of Aussa) was a Swiss adventurer and administrator under the...
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    of Aussa (1875) was fought between the forces of Werner Munzinger and the sultan of Aussa. Munzinger was defeated at Gondet by the Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes...
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  • German encyclopaedist Oskar Munzinger (1849–1932), Swiss politician Werner Munzinger (1832–1875), Swiss adventurer Munzinger-Archiv, German publishing house...
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    the Dane Adolph Arendrup as well as Swiss explorer Werner Munzinger on the Egyptian side. Munzinger, former governor of the Keren and Massawa regions,...
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    the port in favour of nearby Zula. However, the Egyptian governor, Werner Munzinger, was determined to improve the conditions of the port and began a programme...
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    an expedition to search for Eduard Vogel, his companions including Werner Munzinger, Gottlob Kinzelbach, and Hermann Steudner. In June 1861 the party landed...
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    life has become a habit of their nature." In one notable incident, Werner Munzinger, along with his wife, child and a force consisting of 350 soldiers...
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  • "Eintrag "Gruner, Werner" in Munzinger Online/Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv" [Entry "Gruner, Werner" in Munzinger Online/People - International...
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  • of Ethiopia fails, when Emperor Yohannes IV defeats an army led by Werner Munzinger. September 11 – Egypt adopts the Gregorian calendar, having previously...
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    perpetual fairs. Sultan Mahammad ibn Hanfadhe defeated and killed Werner Munzinger in 1875, who was leading an Egyptian army into Ethiopia. In 1869, the...
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    below sea level. The volcano Erta Ale rises southeast of this lake. Werner Munzinger, who traveled through the Afar Depression in 1867, recorded that this...
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  • Canoe Slalom World Championships in Jonquière. "Udo Werner - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-19. "Overview of athlete's...
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    governor of the new "Province of Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Coast", Werner Munzinger Pasha. In October 1875 Isma'il's army tried to occupy the adjacent...
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    states by taking action first; and, during Khedive Ismail's reign, Werner Munzinger wrote to the Isma'il Pasha, urging him to seize Harar, the Swiss officer...
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  • between Dilling and Delami. According to a wordlist by German explorer Werner Munzinger, in his 1864 book Ostafrikanische Studien (East African Studies), the...
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    poet and writer Eduard Müller – politician and federal councillor Werner Munzinger – Africa explorer Hassan Naim - Lebanese-Swiss biochemist Ulrich Ochsenbein...
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  • Ludwig Munzinger Jr. (24 February 1921 – 7 April 2012) was a German publisher of Munzinger-Archiv who took over his father's business in 1957. Munzinger Jr...
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    mercenaries such as Samuel Baker and the Swiss mercenaries such as Werner Munzinger. After 1869, Ismail recruited 48 American mercenaries to command his...
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    NS Banking. 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2023-01-26. "Werner K. Rey - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 2023-01-26. Thuner Tagblatt, July 9...
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    soldiers will never be amenable to discipline..." On 10 January 1874, Werner Munzinger wrote to the Isma'il Pasha, urging him to seize Harar, the Swiss officer...
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    to 1871 Ala al-Din Pasha Siddiq (d. 1883) (1st time) 1871 to 1873 Werner Munzinger, Wali of Massawa, then Governor-General of the Eastern Sudan and the...
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    following year, Keren and Bogos were taken over by the Egyptian governor Werner Munzinger, who established a fort at a hill called Sanhit. The introduction of...
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  • tomorrow (1975) ISBN 3-430-11517-5. Braunbek extension "Werner Braunbek - Munzinger Biographie". Munzinger.de. Retrieved 2012-10-26. "Physik: Stabil in der Schwebe"...
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    governor of the new "Province of Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Coast", Werner Munzinger Pasha. In October 1875 Ismail's army tried to occupy the adjacent highlands...
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    Ilg arrived in the court of Menelik, seeking employment similar to Werner Munzinger who had helped Khedive Isma'il Pasha with the modernization of the...
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    foothold on the Somali coast. In early 1875, Egyptian forces led by Werner Munzinger aimed to join forces with Menelik by traveling westward from the port...
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  • slavers to be sold in the Arabian Peninsula, but later rescued by Werner Munzinger, who brought him to the Johannelunds Teologiska Högskola to study theology...
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    Swiss politician, President of the Confederation in 1879 and 1889 Werner Munzinger (1832–1875) a Swiss administrator and explorer of the Horn of Africa...
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    pastoralists from as far away as Afdera, Erebti and Teru woredas. Werner Munzinger visited Abala in June 1867 (which he calls Ala), and mentions that...
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    Bruce, Jean-François Champollion, Hiob Ludolf, Karl Wilhelm Isenberg, Werner Munzinger, Enno Littmann, Giacomo De Martino, 'Eli Samni', 'Traversi', 'Eli Bizon'...
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