World-changing1882 – 1898 · 16 years

Menelik II's southern conquests

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Arsi · Kaffa · Welayta · Ogaden · Borana

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Menelik II's expansion roughly doubled the size of the Ethiopian Empire through campaigns against Arsi, Kaffa, Welayta, Sidama and the Ogaden.

Belligerents4

Ethiopian Empire
Arsi Oromo
Kingdom of Kaffa
Welayta

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire (Menelik II Expansion)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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