Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a country in Africa. The country has four major rivers: the Blue Nile, the Omo, Awash and WABE Shebelle. The Blue Nile flows into the Mediterranean, the other tributaries in either lakes or dissolved in the desert.
Ethiopia was formerly called Abyssinia, but the earliest historical name is still Ethiopia (or Ethiopia). The name Ethiopia is a rewrite of Æthiopia, gr aith-dark or burned and ops, face. Ancient Greeks and Romans had diplomatic relations with Ethiopia.
Prehistory History
Ethiopian monarchs have traditionally claimed to be descended from Menelik, the son of Jerusalem’s King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Aksum, which today lies in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, was a sophisticated and powerful civilization around. 100 BC to 600 Aksum kings exchanged ambassadors in Rome and Athens and had an important role in world trade. Aksum huge obelisks carved in rock still testify today about the greatness of Aksum, Aksum, and awarded great symbolic value as the cradle of the Ethiopian Christianity.
Christianity became the state religion of Ethiopia already in the first half of the 300-number.
A second golden age in Ethiopian history is Zagwe Dynasty (about 900 to 1250) based in Lalibela, today a village in the central Amhara region. From this time comes a number of impressive churches carved into rocks, complete with several floors, windows, support, even gutter cut in the same rock.
[Edit] Recent history
As the only country in Africa was Ethiopia never colonized by Europe. The northern province of the Red Sea, Eritrea, however, were colonized by Italy, which later paved the way for Eritrea’s independence. Moreover, Ethiopia militarily occupied by Italy during the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1936 – 41
- 1974: The military sells Emperor Haile Selassie and Ethiopia will be proclaimed Marxist-Leninist state.
- 1987: The country gets a new constitution and is now a socialist peoples republic with one-party rule.
- 1991: The 30-year-old civil war leading to the presidential Mengistus drain. Rebel groups seize power in Ethiopia in an alliance with the forces for independence in Ethiopia’s northern province, the former Italian colony of Eritrea. In July, formed a transitional government.
- 1993: The referendum decides Eritrea to secede from Ethiopia after 30 years of independence war and two years of peace. Hence loses Ethiopia landlocked.
- 1995: New constitution – federal republic.
- 2000: Ethiopia and Eritrea sign a peace agreement 12th December 2000 after 2 ½-year border war.
- 2005: A controversial choice ends with massacres of demonstrators and mass imprisonment of opposition politicians.
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