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The Ethiopian Empire, [a] also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or simply known as Ethiopia, [b] was a sovereign state [16] that historically encompasses the geographical area of present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak approximately in 1270 until the 1974 coup d'etat by the Derg ...
- Ethiopian–Adal War
The Ethiopian–Adal War or Abyssinian–Adal War, also known in...
- History of Ethiopia
Medieval map of Ethiopia, including the ancient lost city of...
- Yekuno Amlak
Yekuno Amlak's descendants, the Ethiopian emperors of the...
- Sultanate of Shewa
The Makhzumi dynasty also known as Sultanate of Shewa or...
- Orthodox Tewahedo
Orthodox Tewahedo refers to two Oriental Orthodox Christian...
- Menelik II
Menelik II (Ge'ez: ዳግማዊ ምኒልክ dagmawi mənilək; horse name...
- Ethiopian–Adal War
The Imperial Parliament of Ethiopia ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ንጉሠ ነገሥት ፓርላማ) was the bicameral legislature of the Ethiopian Empire from 1931 to 1974. It consisted of the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, and the upper house, the Senate. The legislature was established in the 1931 Constitution, and all members were ...
March 12. The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea existed from approximately 1270 (beginning of Solomonid Dynasty) until 1974 when the monarchy was overthrown in a coup d'etat.
This article lists the emperors of Ethiopia, from the founding of the Ethiopian Empire and the Solomonic dynasty in 1270 by Yekuno Amlak, until the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 when the last emperor was deposed.
Sep 19, 2020 · The earliest origins of the Ethiopian Empire reach back before 1270. The story begins with the Kingdom of Aksum, also known as the Aksumite Empire, an ancient kingdom of great import in the classical world. Aksum was located in today’s northern Ethiopia, and flourished from about 80 BC to 825 AD. Taking its name from its key city, the capital ...
The Adal rise to power resulted in a series of conflicts with the Ethiopian Empire, and eventually the Ethiopian–Adal War in 1529. Adal's general Ahmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (Ahmed Gran) quickly seized the Ethiopian Empire by conquering most of the Ethiopian Highlands, reaching northern Tigray Province in the Battle of Amba Sel in 1531. Dawit ...
Ethiopia, [a] officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the Northeast, East and Southeast, Kenya to the South, South Sudan to the West, and Sudan to the Northwest.
