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The Ethiopian Empire, [a] historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, [b] was a sovereign state [16] that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak around 1270 until the 1974 coup d'état by the Derg , which ended the reign of the final ...
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.
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (official, English), An Nam (former name in other foreign languages and central Vietnam under French colonization), Champa (historical kingdom), Đại Việt (historical kingdom), Giao Chỉ (former Chinese province or vassal kingdom), French Indochina (former name under French colonization when united with Laos ...
On 16 February 2018, the government of Ethiopia declared another nationwide state of emergency following the resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. [140] Hailemariam was the first ruler in modern Ethiopian history to step down; previous leaders have died in office or been overthrown. [141]
Castle of Emperor Fasilides at Gondar.Tekle Giyorgis II invested greatly in the restoration of Gondar city and its monuments. Leading historian of Ethiopia, Donald Crummey [3] comments on Gobeze's motivation for adopting "Tekle Giyorgis" as his regnal name "was unmistakable, and would have been clear to each peasant, let alone the learned.
2 April 1930 – Haile Selassie reigned as Emperor of Ethiopia. [45] 16 July 1931 – the first Constitution was promulgated with an emulation from 1890 Imperial Japan 1890 Constitution. [46] 3 October 1935 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War began with Italy's invasion of Ethiopia commanded by Marshal Emilio De Bono. [47] [48]
IN: Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 0-312-22719-1; Matthies, Volker (2012). The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire Against the Emperor of Ethiopia. Markus Wiener. ISBN 978-1-55876-552-8. Rubenson, Sven (1966). King of Kings: Tewodros of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Haile Selassie I University
The Abyssinians led by Emperor Gelawdewos, with the assistance of Portuguese musketeers, liberated the empire. [7] Ethiopia was isolated and decentralized in a period known as Zemene Mesafint, starting with the rise of the Yejju Oromo dynasty after the Solomonic Emperor Iyoas I was deposed by the Tigray governor Ras Mikael Sehul on 7 May 1769 ...