The advent of Ethiopian paintings is believed to have begun during the time Christianity first made its presence felt within the Axum Empire in the 4th century AD. The Ethiopian Garima Gospels from the 4th-6th centuries AD contain illuminated manuscripts that predate the oldest known church painting...
The Armenian musicians were then known as the “Arba Lijoch,” which means forty children in Amharic, and were trained in Ethiopia by musical director Kevork Nalbandian. Nalbandian was an Armenian Genocide survivor, originally from Aintab in the southeastern region of the Ottoman Turkish Empir...
It further examines the essence and main characteristics of Gadaa/Siqqee, showing that it provides a contrasting political philosophy to the authoritarian rule of the Ethiopian Empire. The study shows that in the face of oppression and exploitation the Oromo people have struggled to preserve and ...
The expansionist khedive (Ottoman viceroy)Ismāʿīl Pashaof Egypt posed the first external threat to Yohannes’ empire. By the mid-1870s Egypt hadencroachedon Ethiopia to the east and south, but Ethiopian forces, in what verged on an anti-Muslim crusade, won decisive victories in the mount...
By controlling theRed Seaports ofMassawa(Mitsiwa) andAsseb, Tigray became the region through which trading caravans reached the seat of the empire to the south. After it lost the coast to theOttoman Empirein the 16th century, the region lost status, and thereafter, with the brief exception ...
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They represent a political minority, but a numerical majority in the Ethiopian Empire.(2) With the assistance of the European imperialist powers, Ethiopia incorporated the Oromo during the second half of the last century.(3) Since then, the Ethiopian colonial state has dominated the Oromo with ...