Adowa
or ADUA, one of the principal towns in the kingdom of Tigré, Abyssinia, with houses built in a conical form, and arranged into streets. It is the great mart between the interior and the coast, and reaps the advantage of a transit trade between the Red Sea ports and Gondar. It was here that the Italians were decisively defeated by the Abyssinians in 1896. Population, though greatly varying, about 3,000.