Ethiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)

Overview

The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia, the Abyssinian Empire, or simply Ethiopia, was a country 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 Emperor, Haile Selassie. In the late 19th century, under Emperor Menelik II, the empire expanded significantly to the south, and in 1952, Eritrea was federated under Selassie's rule. Despite being surrounded by hostile forces throughout much of its history, the empire maintained a kingdom centered on its ancient Christian heritage.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps
• SNAPSHOT1450
• POLITY TYPEstate

HBM 1450 extent kept through the Gondarine era; after the Adal war and the Oromo migrations (1543-1855) the state was confined to the northern highlands.

Wars of this empire24

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Amda Seyon's campaigns1314–44
  World-changing
• Oromo migrations1522–1618
  World-changing
• Battle of Wayna Daga1543
  World-changing
• Zemene Mesafint1769–1855
  World-changing
• Ifat–Ethiopian wars1320–1415
  Major conflict
• Adal–Ethiopian wars (pre-Gragn)1415–1527
  Major conflict
• Battle of Shimbra Kure1529
  Major conflict
• Ottoman–Ethiopian War (1557–1589)1557–89
  Major conflict
• Ethiopian Catholic civil war1622–32
  Major conflict
• Ethiopian-Adal War1529–59
  Significant · 30K dead
• Dawit I's campaigns1380–1413
  Significant
• Yeshaq I's Adal war1413–30
  Significant
• Battle of Zeila (1415)1415
  Significant
• Zara Yaqob's Adal wars1434–68
  Significant
• Battle of Gomit1445
  Significant
• Mahfuz's jihads1490–1517
  Significant
• Funj Conquest of Alodia1500–04
  Significant
• Battle of Amba Sel1531
  Significant
• Battle of Wofla1542
  Significant
• Battle of Hazalo1559
  Significant
• Battle of Addi Qaro1578
  Significant
• Yagbe'u Seyon's wars1285–94
  Regional
• Hadiya wars under Zara Yaqob1445–50
  Regional
• Funj–Ethiopian War (1730s)1730–45
  Regional