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Aethiopia. The inhabited world according to Herodotus: Libya (Africa) is imagined as extending no further south than the Horn of Africa, terminating in the uninhabitable desert. All peoples inhabiting the southernmost fringes of the inhabitable world are known as Ae thiopians (after their dark skin).
Ethiopia. Egypt–Ethiopia relations are the bilateral relations between the governments of Egypt and Ethiopia. Both countries established diplomatic ties in 1927 to be the oldest on the African continent and one of the oldest in the world. [1] They are both members of the African Union, Nile Basin Initiative and share a relation of special ...
The Egyptian–Ethiopian War was a war between the Ethiopian Empire and the Khedivate of Egypt, an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, from 1874 to 1876.The conflict resulted in an unequivocal Ethiopian victory that guaranteed continued independence of Ethiopia in the years immediately preceding the Scramble for Africa.
In ancient times, the name Ethiopia was primarily used about 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 about Sub-Saharan Africa in general.
Memnon. In Greek mythology, Memnon (/ ˈmɛmnən /; Ancient Greek: Μέμνων, lit. 'resolute'[1]) was a king of Aethiopia and son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost Achilles ' equal in skill. During the Trojan War, he brought an army to Troy 's defense and killed Antilochus, Nestor 's son, during a fierce battle.
Ethiopia. Ethiopia, [a] officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the East, Kenya to the South, South Sudan to the West, and Sudan to the Northwest.
Beginning of the Dervish war in response to Ethiopian expansion into the Ogaden. Centralization of Ethiopia in Shewa. Founding of Addis Ababa in 1897. First Italo-Ethiopian War (1896) Ethiopia. Italy. Victory. Ethiopia retains independence. Italians defeated.
The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire (also known at the time as Abyssinia). Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, then often referred to by the anglicized name Theodore, imprisoned several missionaries and two ...