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This is a list of monarchies of Ethiopia that existed throughout the nation's history. It is divided into kingdoms that were subdivisions of Ethiopia, and kingdoms that were later conquered by Ethiopia.
This is a list of ethnic groups in Ethiopia that are officially recognized by the government. It is a list taken from the 2007 Ethiopian National Census: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Population size and percentage of Ethiopia's total population according to the 1994 and 2007 censuses follows each entry.
Earlier kings of the Dʿmt, Axum and Zagwe kingdoms are listed separately due to numerous gaps and large flexibility in chronology. For legendary and archeologically unverified rulers of Ethiopian tradition, see Regnal lists of Ethiopia and 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia. Names in italics indicate rulers who were usurpers or not widely recognized.
See also: Demographics of Ethiopia, Culture of Ethiopia, List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia. Many ethnic groups native to Ethiopia are also native to Eritrea, and to a lesser extent in Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia; see those categories for missing groups.
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Aside from Mai Adrasha, and Land of Punt, the first kingdom that is epigraphically known to have existed in Ethiopia was the kingdom of Dʿmt, which rose to power around the year 980 BC. Its capital was at Yeha , where a so-called sabean style temple was built around 700 BC although no evidence of such architecture being found in Yemen.
The 1922 regnal list incorporated names from Biblical, Egyptological, Greco-Roman and native Ethiopian sources. Clockwise from upper left: (1) Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, dining with Solomon, (2) Pharaoh Taharqa of Kush, (3) Ezana of the Kingdom of Axum and (4) Zewditu, incumbent Empress of Ethiopia at the time the list was written.
A list recorded by French Orientalist René Basset in his book Études sur l'histoire d'Éthiopie (1882). [52] This list claimed that each king was the son of the previous king. The second of two manuscripts held in the British Museum published in E. A. Wallis Budge's A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia Volume I (1928). [53]