History of Ethiopia - Article Index

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - The Period Of The Princes
This era was, on one hand, a religious conlict between settling Muslims and traditional Christians, between nationalities they represente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum
The Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from ca. 5th century BC to become an impo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zagwe Dynasty: Encyclopedia - Zagwe Dynasty
The Zagwe Dynasty ruled Ethiopia from the end of the Kingdom of Axum to 1270, when Yekuno Amlak defeated and killed the last Zagwe king i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emperor Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Emperor Of Ethiopia - Succession
Succession to the throne at the death of the monarch could be claimed by any male blood relative of the Emperor: sons, brothers, uncles o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Aksum - Foreign Relations And Economy
Aksum traded with India and Rome (later Byzantium, a strong cultural influence on Aksum), exporting ivory, tortoise shell, gold and emera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Aksum - Foreign Relations And Economy
Aksum traded with India and Rome (later Byzantium, a strong cultural influence on Aksum), exporting ivory, tortoise shell, gold and emera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zagwe Dynasty: Encyclopedia Ii - Zagwe Dynasty - History
The Zagwe dynasty came from a Christian princely family of the Agaw people. The number of kings belonging to this dynasty are uncertain: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eritrean War Of Independence: Encyclopedia Ii - Eritrean War Of Independence - 1970s And 1980s
In 1974 Emperor Haile Sellassie was ousted in a coup in 1974. The new Ethiopian Government, called the Derg, was a Marxist military junta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Of Africa - History
Horn of Africa - Ancient history. The Kingdom of Aksum was an African state located in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Yemen that thrived betwee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emperor Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Emperor Of Ethiopia - Ideology
The Emperors of Ethiopia derived their right to rule based on two claims: their descent from the kings of Axum, and their descent from Me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emperor Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Emperor Of Ethiopia - History
The Solomonid dynasty ruled Ethiopia from 13th century until 1974, with only a couple of usurpers. The most significant usurper was Kassa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Aksum - Society Structure
The Aksumite people represented a mix of Cushitic speaking people in Ethiopia and Semitic speaking people in southern Arabia, who settled...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia - Ethiopia
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Amharic ኢትዮጵያ Ityopp'ya) is a country situated in the Horn of Africa. It has one o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Aksum - Cultural Achievements
The Kingdom of Aksum developed its own alphabet (Geez or Ge'ez). Under King Ezana, the kingdom adopted Christianity in place of its forme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Of Africa - Geography And Climate
The Horn of Africa, almost equidistant from the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer, is an arid region. Socotra is a small island off the co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horn Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Horn Of Africa - Ecology
The Horn of Africa is a UNESCO's Biodiversity Hotspot and one of the two entirely arid ones. However the Horn of Africa suffers largely f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Aksum - Cultural Achivements
The Kingdom of Aksum developed its own alphabet (Geez or Ge'ez). Under King Ezana, the kingdom adopted Christianity in place of its forme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eritrean War Of Independence: Encyclopedia Ii - Eritrean War Of Independence - 1990s
After end of the Cold War, symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States played a facilitative role in the peace talks in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Aksum: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Aksum - Society Structure
The Aksumite people represented a mix of Cushitic and Semitic speaking people in Ethiopia and southern Arabia. The Aksumite kings had the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algiers Agreement 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Algiers Agreement 2000 - Boundary Commission
The two governments agreed to determine the origins of the conflict by allowing an investigation incidents of 1997 and 1998 and earlier r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sudan - 19th Century
History of Sudan - The Turkiyah. Main article: History of Sudan (1821-1885) In 1820–21, an Egyptian-Ottoman force conquered and uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - History
The Kingdom of Aksum, the first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia, rose during the first century AD. The Persian reli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Debre Berhan: Encyclopedia Ii - Debre Berhan - History
Debre Birhan was founded in the reign of Emperor Zara Yaqob, in response to a miraculous light that was seen in the sky at the time. Beli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Kaffa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Kaffa - History
The Kingdom of Kaffa was founded approximately c.1390 by Minjo. The first capital Bonga was either founded or captured by Bong-he; it was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sudan - The Coming Of Islam
Islam came to Egypt in the 640s, and pressed southward; around 651 the governor of Egypt raided as far south as Dongola. The Egyptians me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sudan - Independence And The First Civil War
In February 1953, the United Kingdom and Egypt concluded an agreement providing for Sudanese self-government and self-determination. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sudan - Second Civil War
In 1983 the civil war was reignited following the government's Islamicization policy which would have instituted Islamic law, among other...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sudan - Early History
During the ancient period, the area that today is northern Sudan was known as Nubia. Egyptians and people of the Mediterranean world also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algiers Agreement 2000: Encyclopedia Ii - Algiers Agreement 2000 - Claims Commission
A neutral Claims Commission was also established. The mandate of the Commission was to decide through binding arbitration all claims for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sudan - The Nimeiry Era
Dissatisfaction culminated in a second military coup on 25 May 1969. The coup leader, Col. Gaafar Nimeiry, became prime minister, and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Kaffa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Kaffa - Economy
In Kaffa, Maria Theresa Thalers (MT) and salt blocks called amoleh were used as currency as late as 1905, which circulated at a rate of f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - Culture
Main article: Culture of Ethiopia In April 2005, the Axum obelisk, one of Ethiopia's religious and historical treasures, was returned to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - Regions
Main article: Subdivisions of Ethiopia Ethiopia has been divided by the EPRDF into 9 ethnically-based administrative regions (kililoch; s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - Politics
Ethiopia This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Ethiopia President Prime Minister Political parties in Ethiopia ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - Demographics
Main article: Demographics of Ethiopia Ethiopia's population is highly diverse. Most of its people speak a Semitic or Cushitic language. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - Geography
Main article: Geography of Ethiopia Ethiopia is 1,127,127 km² in size, and is the major portion of the Horn of Africa, which is the east...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethiopia - Economy
Main article: Economy of Ethiopia Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest nations: many Ethiopians rely on food aid from abroad. After t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Modern History
In 1930, after the empress died, Ras Tafari Makonnen, adopting the throne name Haile Selassie, was crowned emperor. His reign was interru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - The Ethiopian Dark Ages
About 1000 (presumably c 960), a non-Christian princess, Judith, conceived the design of murdering all the members of the royal family, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Portuguese Influence
Under the Solomonid dynasty, the chief provinces became Tigray (northern), Amhara (central) and Shewa (southern). The seat of government,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Interactions With European Colonial Powers
Ethiopia stands with Liberia as one of the two places in Africa which were never colonized by European powers (if one excludes the brief ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Leaving The Medieval World
Under the Emperors Tewodros II (1855 - 1868), Yohannes IV (1872 - 1889), and Menelek II (1889 - 1913), the kingdom began to emerge from i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - The Ethiopian Dark Ages
About 1000, a non-Christian princess, Judith, conceived the design of murdering all the members of the royal family, and of establishing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Earliest History
Ethiopia has seen human habitation for longer than almost anywhere else in the world, with modern homo sapiens perhaps evolving there. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - The Axumite Kingdom
Main article: Kingdom of Aksum The first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia was that of Axum in the first century CE. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Portuguese Influence
Under the Solomonid dynasty, the chief provinces became Tigray (northern), Amhara (central) and Shewa (southern). The seat of government,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - The Period Of The Princes
This bitter religious conflict contributed to hostility toward foreign Christians and Europeans, which persisted into the 20th century an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Leaving The Medieval World
Under the Emperors Tewodros II (1855 - 1868), Yohannes IV (1872 - 1889), and Menelik II (1889 - 1913), the kingdom began to emerge from i...   » Read the article