Just a few days ago Civilization VI's Ethiopia Pack release date was confirmed as July 23, along with news that it'll bring Secret Societies mode with vampire units. Eek. Now, 2K has unveiled the new ...

It was in 1896 that Ethiopian forces led by Emperor Menelik II had defeated an Italian army with better contemporary military technology at the Battle of Adwa. Subsequently, the victorious Emperor had ...

In March 1896, the Ethiopian army, led by Emperor Menelik II, decisively defeated the Italian army near the town of Adwa, in northern Ethiopia, just south of today’s Eritrean border. As one of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Menelik II was both King of Shewa (1865–1888) and Emperor of Ethiopia (1889–1912). In the late nineteenth century he was confronted with ...

A palace that once housed Ethiopia's emperors and also served as a torture site under the communist Derg regime is to open to the public in a controversial government tourism project. Built in the ...

Her Sublime and Imperial Majesty the Empress Zaudita, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. conferred last week upon her cousin Ras Tafari, the trusted Regent of her Empire, a potent title; “King ...

Menelik II fought off Italians bent on taking his empire, but also oppressed and enslaved ethnic and religious minorities. The victims' descendants are wary of attempts to make him a unifying figure.

Almost unnoticed in the crowds of bearded, bedizened chieftains hurrying through Addis Ababa with their yelling followers fortnight ago was one Fitaurari Shimels, trusted adviser of Haile Selassie. Up ...