Abyssinia Crisis Abyssinia to Mussolini, so his troops were able to continue their war relatively unchallenged by the rest of Europe. Haile Selassie was forced into exile on 2 May. All the sanctions that had been put in place by the League were dropped after the Italian capture of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on the 5th of May 1936. Ethiopia was then merged with the other Italian colonies to become Italian East Africa ("Africa Orientale Italiana", or AOI). Ethiopia never officially surrendered, and pleaded for help from foreign nations, such as Haile Selassie's . As a result, there were six
Name of Georgia (country) the Syriac "gurz-ān"/"gurz-iyān" and Arabic "ĵurĵan"/"ĵurzan", derived from the New Persian "gurğ"/"gurğān", itself stemming from the Middle Persian "waručān" of unclear origin, but resembling the eastern trans-Caspian toponym Gorgan, which comes from the Old Persian "varkâna-", "land of the wolves". This might have been of the same etymology as the Armenian "Virk"' (Վիրք) and a source of the Greco-Roman rendition "Iberi" (), the ethnonym already known to them as a designation of the Iberian peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. One theory on the etymology of the name Iberia, proposed by Giorgi Melikishvili, was that it was derived from the contemporary