Korem

Korem is a city and separate woreda in Tigray, Ethiopia. Located on the jap fringe of the Ethiopian highlands in the Debubawi Zone of the Tigray Region, this town has a range and longitude of 12°30′N 39°31′E with an elevation of 2539 meters above sea level and is positioned along Ethiopian Highway 2. It is surrounded through Ofla woreda. The telegraph line the Italians built among 1902 and 1904 from Asmara south to Addis Ababa handed thru the city, and had an office in Korem.

Near the metropolis on nine October 1909, Abraha Araya, governor of Enderta, made a marvel assault at sunrise on Dejazmach Abate Bwalu, the brand new governor of Tigray. Abreha had d that he might not post to the Dejazmach. During the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the Italians are said to have attacked Ethiopian infantrymen close to the town with shells liberating mustard gas, with times of Italians the use of chemical weapons use at Korem recorded for March sixteen-18, and April four-7, 1936. More positive are the reviews that three planes of Ethiopian Red Cross, sitting on the airstrip at Korem, had been destroyed b18y Italian warring parties.