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Mentewab had herself crowned as co-ruler, becoming the first woman to be crowned in this manner in Ethiopian history. Ethiopian Prince investiture during the Zemene Mesafint. Empress Mentewab was crowned co-ruler upon the succession of her son (a first for a woman in Ethiopia) in 1730 and held unprecedented power over government during his reign.
His innovative works include a 1922 historical dictionary that offered a prosopographic study of Ethiopia's historical figures and contemporary notables, a history of Ethiopian foreign relations, historiographic travel literature, and a traditionalist historical treatise combining narrative histories for the Zagwe and Solomonic dynasties with ...
King of Italy, proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia after Italian victory in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War; the title was contested by Haile Selassie in exile. Italian defeat in the East African campaign of World War II , and later Italian capitulation , ended Italian pretensions of rulership over Ethiopia.
Wax & Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. LCCN 65018340. Lusini, Gianfrancesco (2020). "The Ancient and Medieval History of Eritrean and Ethiopian Monasticism: An Outline". In Kelly, Samantha (ed.). A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-41958-2.
The list includes people born in and residing in Ethiopia, as well as people strongly associated with Ethiopia, and people of significant Ethiopian ancestry. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Category: Historical events in Ethiopia. 1 language. ... 2024 events in Ethiopia by month (7 C) C. Conferences in Ethiopia (1 C, 1 P) D. Disasters in Ethiopia (7 C) E.
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.
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]