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    Giuseppe Sapeto (1811-24 August 1895) was a member of the Order of San Lazaro who traveled the shores of the Red Sea and was one of the proponents of...
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    figure of the early history of Italian enterprises in the Red Sea was Giuseppe Sapeto. When a young monk, preparing himself in Cairo for missionary work...
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    bought by the Italian missionary Giuseppe Sapeto on behalf of the Rubattino Shipping Company. Upon reaching Assab, Sapeto found two sultans, the brothers...
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    sold lands surrounding the Bay of Assab to the Italian missionary Giuseppe Sapeto on behalf of the Rubattino Shipping Company. The area served as a coaling...
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    350 huts and around 2,000 inhabitants. Two Lazarist missionaries, Giuseppe Sapeto and Giovanni Stella, undertook a missionary tour of the locality in...
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    Suez canal and bought the Bay of Assab from a local ruler through Giuseppe Sapeto. Initially only meant to be a coal depot, this aided Italian colonialism...
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    Menelik's Expansions began. 5 July 1882 – the Italian enterprises led by Giuseppe Sapeto took Assab. 3 June 1884 – Hewett Treaty signed between Ethiopia, Egypt...
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    Wali of Massawa Italian Civil Commissioners of Assab 1885 to 1885 Giuseppe Sapeto (commercial agent) (born 1811 – died 1895) 1885 to 1885 Giovanni Branchi...
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    what was to become the colony of Eritrea was Assab Bay, purchased by Giuseppe Sapeto on behalf of the Società di Navigazione Rubattino (Rubattino Shipping...
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    1869, an Italian, Lazarist missionary Giuseppe Sapeto was hired to assist in securing a Red Sea port for Italy. Sapeto had first come to Eritrea in 1837 and...
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    of the Suez Canal's creation. Following Cavour's initiative, a man named Sapeto was given permission by the Rubattino shipping company to use a ship to...
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