Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military OligarchyFirst published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh, the earliest known ancestor of the human race, to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a sincere and sensitive observer, who lived through the later historical events which he describes, and indeed played a notable role in several of them. |
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... Army which was formed in 1974. It assumed power by deposing the Emperor Haile Selassie in 1975. ECHAT Amharic acronym for a Marxist-Leninist Organisation, the Ethiopian Oppressed People's Movement. Echege The highest ecclesiastical ...
... Army which was formed in 1974. It assumed power by deposing the Emperor Haile Selassie in 1975. ECHAT Amharic acronym for a Marxist-Leninist Organisation, the Ethiopian Oppressed People's Movement. Echege The highest ecclesiastical ...
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... army crowned him with success. The Muslim principalities of Ifat, Hadya, Daoro, Bale, Adale and regions along the Red Sea coast that had broken away from the kingdom were subdued and reincorporated into it. King Amde Siyon, for the ...
... army crowned him with success. The Muslim principalities of Ifat, Hadya, Daoro, Bale, Adale and regions along the Red Sea coast that had broken away from the kingdom were subdued and reincorporated into it. King Amde Siyon, for the ...
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... army of 216,000 clashed with Gragn's 12,500 men . The king's army suffered a devastating defeat and he went into hiding with a few of his remaining soldiers.17 His defeat was a turning point in the history of Ethiopia . The empire that ...
... army of 216,000 clashed with Gragn's 12,500 men . The king's army suffered a devastating defeat and he went into hiding with a few of his remaining soldiers.17 His defeat was a turning point in the history of Ethiopia . The empire that ...
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... army, made a surprise attack on Gragn's army near Lake Tana and routed it. Gragn fell at the battlefield and his army dispersed and fled; but the Turks resisted and fought until they were overpowered by the Ethio-Portuguese forces. Only ...
... army, made a surprise attack on Gragn's army near Lake Tana and routed it. Gragn fell at the battlefield and his army dispersed and fled; but the Turks resisted and fought until they were overpowered by the Ethio-Portuguese forces. Only ...
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... army nor revenue commensurate with the lifestyle of a king. His kingdom for all intents and purposes did not extend beyond the four walls of his palace. He lived on minor local income, fines, charity and toll from merchants of Gonder ...
... army nor revenue commensurate with the lifestyle of a king. His kingdom for all intents and purposes did not extend beyond the four walls of his palace. He lived on minor local income, fines, charity and toll from merchants of Gonder ...
Contents
The Price of Modernisation | |
Notes | |
Critical Stage of the Revolution | |
Major Political Developments of the Revolution | |
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Abune Addis Ababa administrative regions Africa Aksumite Aksumite Kingdom Amharic anti-revolutionaries Armed Forces army Asmera associations cabinet campaign CELU Central Committee Chairman Mengistu Co-ordinating Committee Colonel Mengistu Commander commission congress COPWE Council of Ministers declaration defence Dejazmach delegation Democratic Dergue draft economic elected emperor EPLF EPRDF EPRP Eritrea Ethiopia Tikdem Ethiopian Government Ethiopian Herald Ethiopian Orthodox Church Ethiopian revolution execution foreign government’s Haile Selassie ibid Imperial implementation institutions issued Italian Italy king Labour land leadership London major Marxist-Leninist mass organisations Massawa MEISON Mengistu Haile Mariam Menilek military Ministry National Shengo nationalisation officers Ogaden participate Party of Ethiopia PDRE Peace Talks peasants People’s PMAC Politburo political POMOA President Prime Minister proclamation programme Provisional reform regime Revolutionary secessionists sector Shewa social socialist countries Somalia Sudan Teferri territorial Tesfaye Tewodros Tigray TPLF unity vanguard party villagisation Wollo workers Yohannis