Ali Ghider ( ar, علي قدر) is located nine kilometers to the west of

Teseney Teseney ( ar, تسني, ti, ተሰነይ), also spelled Tessenei or Tesseney, is a market town in western Eritrea. It lies south-east of Kassala in Sudan, on the Gash River. The city was much fought over in the Eritrean War of Independence during ...

in the country of

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

. It is part of the Teseney sub-zone and has a diverse population. It is considered the last settlement in Eritrea before reaching the

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

ese Border and is located in the lowlands. Agriculture, livestock raising and trade are very important to the economy of the area. Ali Ghider has access to

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from both the

Gash River Gash may refer to: Places * Gash, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Gash, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Gash River or Mareb River, flowing out of northern Ethiopia People * Jim Gash (born 196 ...

and underground water resources. Processes of irrigation have created an artificial

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near the Gash River which provides a large habitat for many bird species. Ali Ghider was once an Italian frontier village. Ali Ghider was an agricultural area, growing cotton and other crops, and managed by the Societa Impresse Africana (SIA). SIA helped develop Ali Ghider into a company town, housing tenant farmers and other workers on the plantation. A school and clinic were set up and by the 1950s, the

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

employed 2,000 Eritreans, 15 Italians and "provided a residence for another 12,000 part time workers and family members." A well-known Italian business that was established for many years in Ali Ghider was the Barattolo cotton plantation which was established in 1965 by Roberto Barattolo in a purchase from SIA. This acquisition from the SIA allowed Barattolo to export knitwear to both

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and the

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. Ali Ghider received significant damage from the sacking by Ethiopian forces. Many of the Italian artifacts left from its time as a frontier village were destroyed in 2001 through

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

n military actions.

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