WHY ETHIOPIA WAS NEVER COLONIZED
When the European powers decided to colonize Africa only two nations were not colonized, Liberia and Ethiopia which was called Abyssinia. From 1870, the present-day Abyssinia Ethiopia came to be coveted by Italy, which then sought to join the other European powers in the unbridled race for the partition of Africa.
In 1887 fighting was taking place between the Italians and the Ethiopians.
On May 2, 1889 Ethiopia and Italy signed the 'Treaty of Wuchale.
In 1896, the Ethiopian army, under the leadership of Menelique II of Abyssinia, one of the great statesmen of African history, who accompanied by his wife, the Empress Taitu Bitul, defeated the Italians, in the famous battle of Aduá.
This Empire had three "Negus" which means king in Amharic an Ethiopian language. Theodore II, John Yohannes IV, and Menelique II, were great kings and played a fundamental role mainly in the territorial expansion of the empire.
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22 июн 2021