Coins showing the royal portrait began to be minted under King Endubis toward the end of the 3rd century CE. [52], By late 17th century, the Oromo had friendly relations with the Amharas. The earliest Muslim state in Ethiopia, the Makhzumi dynasty with its capital in Wahal, Hararghe region succeeds Queen Yodit. [66] The people incorporated were the western Oromo (non Shoan Oromo), Sidama, Gurage, Wolayta and other groups. Ethiopia stood as the antithesis of the colonial worldview. By starship-enterprise. The government's failure to adequately respond to the 1973 Wollo famine, the growing discontent of urban interest groups, and high fuel prices due to the 1973 oil crisis led to a revolt in February 1974 by the army and civilian populace. 1962 - Haile Selassie annexes Eritrea, which becomes an Ethiopian province. [45] According to legends, the new dynasty were male-line descendants of Aksumite monarchs, now recognized as the continuing Solomonic dynasty (the kingdom being thus restored to the biblical royal house). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. Jan 5, 1898. A remote province such as Bale is last recorded paying tribute to the imperial throne during Yaqob reign (1590-1607).[41]. [100], After a period of civil unrest that began in February 1974, a provisional administrative council of soldiers, known as the Derg ("committee"), seized power from the aging Emperor Haile Selassie I on September 12, 1974, and installed a government that was socialist in name and military in style. In ancient times, the name Ethiopia was primarily used in reference to the modern-day nation of Sudan which is based in the Upper Nile valley and is located south of Egypt, also called Kush, and then secondarily in reference to Sub-Saharan Africa in general. Frumentius converted Ezana, who left several inscriptions detailing his reign both before and after his conversion. c. 2000 BCE - c. 1500 CE. [127][128] According to local media, up to 500 civilians may have been killed in a massacre in the town of Mai Kadra on 9 November 2020. Due to migration and imperial expansion, it grew to include many other primarily Afro-Asiatic -speaking communities, including Amhara, Oromos, Somalis, Tigray, Afars, Sidama, Gurage, Agaw and Harari, among others. Ethiopian troops are known to have made use of Dum-Dum bullets (in violation of the Hague Conventions) and mutilated captured soldiers (often with castration). When Iyoas assumed the throne upon his father's sudden death, the aristocrats of Gondar were stunned to find that he more readily spoke in the Oromo language rather than in Amharic, and tended to favor his mother's Yejju relatives over the Qwarans of his grandmothers family. Organised farming begins in Egypt. Nelson Mandela. [17], Evidence of Naqadan contacts include obsidian from Ethiopia and the Aegean. 1913 - Menelik dies and is succeeded by his grandson, Lij Iyasu. "[16], The first known voyage to Punt occurred in the 25th century BC under the reign of Pharaoh Sahure.
