"The Ethiopian Empire (Tigrinya: ንጉሠ ነገሥት መንግሥቲ ዘ ኢትዮጵያ, Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ንጉሠ ነገሥት መንግሥተ, Mängəstä Ityop´p´ya), also known by the exonym Abyssinia (derived from the Arabic ...
al-Habash), or just simply Ethiopia (/ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/; Ge´ez: ኢትዮጵያ, Amharic: ኢትዮጵያ, ʾĪtyōṗṗyā, listen (help·info), Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ, Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: Itiyoophiyaa),[12] was a monarchy that spanned a geographical area in the current states of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It began with the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak from approximately 1270 and lasted until 1974, when Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a coup d´état by the Communist Derg. It was throughout much of its existence the most powerful state in the African Horn and managed to preserve and develop its ancient form of Christianity." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.02.2020)
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