Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana, South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan)
Born in Lana, County of Tyrol in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ohrwalder was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there and escaped ten years later. The German manuscript of his travels was rendered into English by Francis Reginald Wingate from a sketchy translation. Wingate had helped him escape from Sudan.
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South Tyrol, officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, is an autonomous province in Northern Italy, one of the two that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province is the northernmost of Italy, the second largest, with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi) and has a total population of about 534,000 inhabitants as of 2021. Its capital and largest city is Bolzano.
Major General Orde Charles Wingate, was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
Lana may refer to:
Lana is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy. It is situated in the Etschtal between Bolzano and Merano and at the entrance to the Ultental. The population rose to 12,566 in 2020.
General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. He earned the nom de guerre Wingate of the Sudan.
Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.
The current national emblem of Sudan was adopted in 1985.
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The Battle of Gallabat was an armed conflict fought on 9–10 March 1889 between the Mahdist Sudanese and Ethiopian forces. It is a critical event in Ethiopian history because Nəgusä Nägäst Yohannes IV was killed in this battle, and because it was the last major battle on the Ethiopian front of the Mahdist War. The fighting occurred at the site of the twin settlements of Gallabat and Metemma, so both names are commonly used and either can be argued to be correct.
Dame Catherine Leslie Wingate DBE was a British humanitarian.
Karl Zuegg was an Italian entrepreneur from Lana in South Tyrol. He was the managing director of the Lana fruit juice and jam company Zuegg, between 1940 and 1986.
Major-General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, was a British Army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On 19 November 1924, he was shot by assassins while driving through Cairo, and died of his wounds the next day.
The Falschauer is a river in South Tyrol, Italy. It flows into the Adige near Lana.
The Vigiljoch is a mountain pass near Lana in South Tyrol, Italy. The pass is at elevation 1,743 m, whereas the nearby summits northeast of the pass are insignificantly higher.
Olivier Pain was a French journalist and Communard notable for his escape from New Caledonia alongside Henri Rochefort, and for travelling to the Sudan during the Mahdist War. He also wrote under the pseudonym Olivier Tolcès.
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