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Reproduction of Ethiopian painting depicting a scene of the Thirty Years' War (Abyssinia, 1527-1557). Photograph commissioned by Erich Schmidt

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Original; masking; reproduction; annotations: 44330; the so-called Thirty Years' War (1527-1557) saw Christian and Muslim opposition and was sparked by Sultan Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim: the Sultan ordered the Muslim city of Adal not to pay the annual tribute due to the Christian empire of Ethiopia, so he sent an army composed mainly of Somalis equipped with firearms supplied by the Turks, an exceptional novelty that sowed terror between and The principal of photography is probably Erich Friedrich Schmidt (1897-1964), a German archaeologist naturalized in America, who specialized in near-eastern archaeology (he was professor emeritus at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago).
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Title: Reproduction of Ethiopian painting depicting a scene of the Thirty Years' War (Abyssinia, 1527-1557). Photograph commissioned by Erich Schmidt
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Original; masking; reproduction; annotations: 44330; the so-called Thirty Years' War (1527-1557) saw Christian and Muslim opposition and was sparked by Sultan Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim: the Sultan ordered the Muslim city of Adal not to pay the annual tribute due to the Christian empire of Ethiopia, so he sent an army composed mainly of Somalis equipped with firearms supplied by the Turks, an exceptional novelty that sowed terror between and The principal of photography is probably Erich Friedrich Schmidt (1897-1964), a German archaeologist naturalized in America, who specialized in near-eastern archaeology (he was professor emeritus at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago).

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Original; reproduction; annotations: 44280; the principal of photography is probably Erich Friedrich Schmidt (1897-1964), a German archaeologist naturalized in America, who special...

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