History Ethiopia

The series of concomitant events of the Luso-Turkish interference in the regional affairs of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Horn of Africa; the Adalite Wars of 1524-1543, and the Great Ethiopian Ethnic Migrations of 1520-1660, jointly interrupted the evolutionary process and progress of the Ethiopian Hatse State until 1855.
On the other hand, [...]

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Between 1540 and 1559, King Galawdewos, with the assistance of the Portuguese soldiers, undertook the first attempts against the Adalites and the Oromo nomads to restore the former state frontiers and the corresponding central authority of the Hatse State of Ethiopia.
When Galawdewos succeeded his tather as the Hatse of Ethiopia in 1540, Imam Ahmed Gragn [...]

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It has been said that the line of conventional demarcation between prehistory and history is the existence of written and dated records of human events.
In this respect from the time when the pharaonic Egyptians identified the coastal region and inhabitants of North-East Africa as Punt and the Habasha, respective, in the mid 3rd millennium B.C., [...]

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After the land and the Habasha people of Punt the earliest historically known land and people of North-East Africa were the people and state of Daamat during the last five centuries B.C. This state was located in the present Southern Eritrea and Northern Tigrai.
Documentary evidence on the ancient Ethiopian land, people, and state of Daamat [...]

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The first recorded historical description of the region and the inhabitants of North-East Africa goes back about 4,800 years to the time of the ancient pharaonic Egyptians.
The coastal region of North-East Africa, approximately between today’s the Red Sea port of Suwakin in the north, and the Cape of Guardafui in the southeast, was dimly known [...]

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