The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844-1913 |
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... European . The Frenchman passionately declared : ' From Shoa . will arise the signal for the regeneration of Ethiopia ; from your reign will date . . . a new era , more glorious and brilliant than that of old King Caleb whose power ...
... European . The Frenchman passionately declared : ' From Shoa . will arise the signal for the regeneration of Ethiopia ; from your reign will date . . . a new era , more glorious and brilliant than that of old King Caleb whose power ...
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... European advisers and tech- nicians to Shoa . In April 1879 he obtained the services of Alfred Ilg , a young engineer from the Polytechnicum in Zürich , who remained in Menelik's employ for twenty - nine years . A remarkably flexible ...
... European advisers and tech- nicians to Shoa . In April 1879 he obtained the services of Alfred Ilg , a young engineer from the Polytechnicum in Zürich , who remained in Menelik's employ for twenty - nine years . A remarkably flexible ...
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... European official forebodings about the fate of the Ethiopian state . Most travellers were optimistic about the future of the country , apart from some over - endowed with the racialism of the early twentieth century.1 The Europeans ...
... European official forebodings about the fate of the Ethiopian state . Most travellers were optimistic about the future of the country , apart from some over - endowed with the racialism of the early twentieth century.1 The Europeans ...
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