siege, interwar and Second World War

Siege of Saïo

Name: Siege of Saïo
Start: 1941-03-25
Location: Dembi Dollo, Ethiopia

Siege of Saïo was a siege conducted on 25 March 1941 at Dembi Dollo, in what is now Ethiopia; it lasted 3 months. It was part of the East African Campaign, which ran from 1940 to 1941. The recorded result: Allied victory.

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Some of the booty taken by the Congo forces after the Siege of Saïo victory in Italian East Africa. Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fought25 March 1941lasted 3 months

WhereDembi Dollo, Ethiopia8.530N, 34.800E

OutcomeAllied victory

Part ofEast African Campaign1940 to 1941

Where it sits in the East African Campaign

6 placed engagements of the East African Campaign in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	25 March 1941 to 6 July 1941
Place	Dembi Dollo, Ethiopia 8.530N, 34.800E
Kind	Siege, interwar and Second World War
Territorial change	Galla-Sidamo Governorate liberated by Allied forces

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Embabo 1882, 332 km NE
Battle of Fachoda 1898, 342 km NW
Battle of Faggeta 1769, 378 km NE
Battle of Gur Amba 1852, 511 km NE
Battle of Gondar 1941, 538 km NE

In the same war

Before: Battle of Keren 5 February 1941
After: Battle of Culqualber 6 August 1941
All 6 engagements of East African Campaign

Elsewhere in 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor United States
Siege of Leningrad Soviet Union
Battle of Moscow Soviet Union
Battle of Crete Greece
Battle of Kiev Ukraine

Siege of Saïo is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 14 in present-day Ethiopia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q19947679, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Saïo, revision 1370745106, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.