Ethiopian Empire

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1270 – 1975 · up to 1,128 thousand km² · Africa, Middle East

Capital: Addis Ababa (1889–1974), Gondar (…–1889)

The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia 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.

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Predecessors: Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea, Kingdom of Wolaita

Events on its territory

• 1270 Yekuno Amlak founds the Solomonic dynasty
• 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia
• c. 1636 Gondar becomes Ethiopia's capital
• 1896 Battle of Adwa
• 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia