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The first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia was that of Axum in the 1st century CE. It was one of many successor kingdoms to Dʿmt and was able to unite the northern Ethiopian Highlands beginning around the 1st century BCE. They established bases on the northern highlands of the Ethiopian Plateau and from there expanded ...
In 1527 a young imam by the name of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi would rise to power in Adal after years of internal strife. The Adal Sultanate would stockpile on imported firearms, cannons and other advanced weaponry from Arabia and the Ottoman Empire. He invaded Ethiopia in 1529 and inflicted a heavy defeat on Emperor Dawit II, but later ...
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 ...
The Solomonic dynasty is the name given by modern historians to the line of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian monarchs that ruled Ethiopia from the late 13th century to 1974. [1] The dynasty was founded by Yekuno Amlak, a noble from Shewa, [2] who overthrew the last ruler of Ethiopia's Zagwe dynasty in 1270 and seized power. [3]
Tewodros ended the division of Ethiopia among the various regional lords and princes that had vied among each other for power for almost two centuries. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He forcibly re-incorporated the regions of Gojjam , Tigre , Shewa and Wollo under the direct administration of the Imperial throne after they had been ruled by local branches of the ...
5 May 1941 – Haile Selassie returned to the throne to Ethiopia to help rally resistance. 19 May 1941 – British military occupation of Eritrea began. [57] [58] 31 January 1942 – 1st Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement. [59] 19 December 1944 – 2nd Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement. 10 February 1947 – Italy recognized Ethiopian sovereignty.
Yohannes IV (Tigrinya: ዮሓንስ ፬ይ Rabaiy Yōḥānnes; horse name Abba Bezbiz also known as Kahśsai; born Lij Kahssai Mercha; 11 July 1837 – 10 March 1889) [1] was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to his death in 1889 at the Battle of Gallabat, and king of Tigray from 1869 to 1871.
The Zemene Mesafint (Ge'ez: ዘመነ መሳፍንት, variously translated "Era of Judges", "Era of the Princes", etc.; taken from the biblical Book of Judges) was a period in Ethiopian history between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries when the country was ruled by a class of Oromo elite noblemen who replaced Habesha nobility in their courts, making the emperor merely a figurehead. [1]