Chapter VI · East Africa
Horn
of Africa
Ethiopia · Somalia · Djibouti
East Africa
Ethiopia · Somalia · Djibouti
Chapter VI
The Horn juts into the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, making it one of Africa's oldest crossroads of trade and civilisation. Ethiopia alone was never colonised — its victory at Adwa in 1896 sent a shock through every colonised nation on earth. The Aksumite stelae still stand in Tigray; the Lalibela churches are carved from solid rock.
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Key dates
~900 BCE
Queen of Sheba (Makeda) — Ethiopian tradition
4th cent
Ezana of Aksum: first Christian empire in Africa
1270
Solomonic dynasty restored in Ethiopia
1896
Battle of Adwa — Ethiopia defeats Italy, remains independent
1974
Haile Selassie deposed; end of the ancient monarchy
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From the archive
Empires and heroes drawn from the Africanpedia catalogue for this region.
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