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Gessi, Romolo, 1831-1881

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Personal name headingGessi, Romolo, 1831-1881
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Variant(s)Gessi Pasha, 1831-1881
Associated countryItaly Egypt Sudan Uganda
Birth date1831
Death date1881
Place of deathSuez (Egypt)
Profession or occupationSoldiers Governors Explorers
Found inZaccaria, Massimo. Il flagello degli schiavisti, 1999: t.p. (Romolo Gessi) p. 5 (b. April 30, 1831 in Constantinople; d. April 30, 1881)
Wikipedia, Apr. 4, 2014 (Romolo Gessi, also called Gessi Pasha; Italian soldier and explorer of northeast Africa, esp. Sudan and the Nile River; b. in Ravenna, in Romagna; gained military experience serving in volunteer corps of Garibaldi 1859-1860; fought with British in the Crimean War; explored the upper Nile under General Gordon, 1876; explored Oromo territory; became governor of the Egyptian Bahr-el-Ghazal province, where he fought against the slave trade; d. shortly after return to Suez, May 1, 1881)
Britannica Academic Edition online, Apr. 4, 2014 (Romolo Gessi; b. Apr. 30, 1881, Constantinople; d. May 30, 1881, Suez, Egypt; first person to circumnavigate and map Lake Albert Nyanza, in Uganda)