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  2. Menelik II - Wikipedia

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    Menelik's campaigns 1879–89 Menelik's campaigns 1889–96 Menelik's campaigns 1897–1904 Menelik is argued to be the founder of modern Ethiopia. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Before Menelik's colonial conquests, [ 18 ] Ethiopia and the Adal Sultanate had been devastated by numerous wars, the most recent of which was fought in the 16th century. [ 19 ]

  3. Menelik II's conquests - Wikipedia

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    Menelik II's conquests, also known as the Agar Maqnat (Amharic: አገር ማቅናት, romanized: ʾägär maqnat, lit. 'Colonization, Cultivation and Christianization of Land'), [ 4 ] were a series of expansionist wars and conquests carried out by Emperor Menelik II of Shewa to expand the Ethiopian Empire .

  4. Government of the Ethiopian Empire - Wikipedia

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    Under Emperor Menelik II, Ethiopia became a centralized state under a multiethnic empire with over 80 ethnic groups despite having Shewan Amhara dominance. Ethiopia was then modernized by Emperor Haile Selassie after his coronation in 1930, bringing two constitutions in 1931 and revisited in 1955 that was a unitary parliamentary system with the ...

  5. Ethiopian Empire - Wikipedia

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    As feudalism became the central tenet in the Ethiopian Empire, it developed into an authoritarian system with institutionalized social inequality. As land became the prime commodity, its acquisition became the main driving force behind imperialism, especially from the reign of Menelik II onwards. [98]

  6. Territorial evolution of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Menelik II's conquests, 1879–1889 1889–1896 1897–1904. In 1896, Emperor Menelik II expanded his realm southward and formed the modern borders of Ethiopia, referred to as Menelik II's conquests. The expansion has two motives: the first was to save Ethiopia from European colonialism, and the second to acquire sufficient resources.

  7. Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Ethiopia, in roughly its current form, began under the reign of Menelik II, who was Emperor from 1889 until his death in 1913. From his base in the central province of Shewa, Menelik set out to annex territories to the south, east, and west [108] — areas inhabited by the Oromo, Sidama, Gurage, Welayta, and other peoples. [109]

  8. List of emperors of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Flag of Ethiopia Imperial Coat of Arms of Ethiopia. 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.

  9. Battle of Adwa - Wikipedia

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    Several images and symbols are used during the commemoration of the Victory of Adwa, including the tri-coloured green, gold and red Ethiopian flag, images of Emperor Menelik II and Empress Taytu Betul, as well as other prominent kings and war generals of the time including King Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, King Michael of Wollo, Dejazmach Balcha ...