Empire1900 – 1974 · 74 years
Ethiopian Empire
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.
Wikipedia: Ethiopian Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps
- SNAPSHOT1914
- MATCHEDEthiopia
- POLITY TYPEstate
HBM 1914 outline (post-Adwa treaty borders); Italian occupation 1936-41 not shown as a separate polity.
Wars of this empire25
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- World-changing
- Second Italo-Ethiopian War1935–36Major conflict · 750K dead
- Eritrean War of Independence1961–91Major conflict · 150K dead
- Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Major conflict
- Battle of Anchim1930Significant
- Significant
- Battle of Shire1936Significant
- Significant
- Significant
- Significant
- Battle of Gondar1941Significant
- Woyane Rebellion1943Significant
- Bale revolt1963–70Significant
- Significant
- Oromo Liberation Army insurgency1973–2024Significant
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
- Regional
+ 1 more in the atlas.
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Cite as: Ethiopian Empire (1900 – 1974). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/ethiopian-empire · Sources & methodology