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Section sizes

Section size for History of Ethiopia (44 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	2,288	2,288
Etymology	5,316	5,316
Antiquity	15	14,858
Land of Punt	4,441	4,441
Dʿmt	1,976	1,976
Axum	2,418	8,426
Christianity, Judaism and Islam	6,008	6,008
Middle Ages	54	22,478
Zagwe dynasty	2,893	6,560
Foreign affairs	3,667	3,667
Early Solomonic period (1270–16th century)	5,693	5,693
Relations with Europe and "Prester John"	5,160	5,160
The Ethiopian-Adal War (1529–1543)	2,523	2,523
Oromo Expansion	2,488	2,488
Early modern period	27	10,607
Gondarian period (1632–1769)	3,775	3,775
Aussa Sultanate	871	871
Zemene Mesafint	5,934	5,934
Modern era	348	37,726
Tewodros II and Tekle Giyorgis II (1855–1872)	4,996	4,996
Yohannes IV (1872–1889)	3,654	3,654
Menelik II (1889–1913)	4,582	4,582
Lij Iyasu, Zewditu and Haile Selassie (1913–1936)	1,998	17,021
Educational modernization	1,896	1,896
Italian occupation (1936–1941)	8,295	9,406
World War II	1,111	1,111
Post–World War II period (1941–1974)	3,721	3,721
Communist period (1974–1991)	7,125	7,125
Federal Democratic Republic	67	27,325
Tigray People's Liberation Front dominance (1991–2018)	7,774	12,659
Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict	3,510	3,510
War in Somalia	1,375	1,375
Abiy Ahmed and the Prosperity Party (2018–present)	8,947	14,599
COVID-19 pandemic	1,654	1,654
Tigray War	3,998	3,998
Historiography	1,986	1,986
See also	790	790
References	127	6,553
Videography	248	248
Historical documents	3,026	3,026
Articles	3,152	3,152
Further reading	4,241	4,241
Historiography	223	223
External links	642	642
Total	135,033	135,033

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Why is Somali history taken as Egyptian History?[edit]

The section on bronze age contacts only mentions trade with the land of Punt. Although there is some contention about where exactly that lay, most scholars agree that the most likely location was Puntland, at that time one of the major sources of myrrh and frankincense (the latter is not found in Ethiopia); especially given the lengthy sea travel described in records of the Egyptian expeditions to 'Pwenet'. I believe this section does not belong here. I have now qualified it by indicating that the location of the Land of Punt is not certain. Robert Kluijver (talk) 08:01, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Abyssinia Affair[edit]

Shouldn't this part of history under Menelik be mentioned? (See article on William Ellis.) Kdammers (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Name Ethiopia[edit]

The theory that Ezana did somehow appropriate the name after the conquer of Nubia makes no sense, he doesn’t refer to them as Ethiopians and secondly does not use the name to reference themselves thereafter. That theory does not wash. 2A02:C7C:36FF:3600:E5C3:603F:84F6:78D0 (talk) 05:02, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]