The Ethiopan King Ezana converted to ........... around 325 AD at the encouragment of Frumentius, a freed slave from Tyre. He was only the second ruler in the world to do so.
The Rastafari movement, whose adherents worship Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, developed in ....... during the 1930s.
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Imam and General of the .... Sultanate, was a muslim somali who conquered three-quarters of Abyssinia before dying at the Battle of Wayna Daga.
Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, named the four great powers of his time as Rome, Persia, China and the Kingdom of .... in Ethiopia, named after it's capital city.
The great city of Meroë, capital of the Kingdom of Kush in modern day ....., was likely conquered by Ethiopians in the 4th century.
For a few months in 1889 Nikolay Ivanovitch Achinov ran what would be ......'s only African colony in the town of Sagallo in Djibouti.
Abraha, the Ethiopian viceroy of Yemen who defeated the ...... Warlord Dhu Nuwas, declared independence from his home country in the late 5th century.
The Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia was founded in the European country of ...... to connect one of its African colonies to the Ethiopian cities of Harar and Addis Adaba.
One of the earliest actions of the RAF was the use of 12 aircraft in the 1920 Somaliland campaign against the ....... State.
The port city of Massawa in Eritrea was captured by the ....... empire in 1557 and held even though attempts to conquer the rest of the Medri Bahri failed.
In 1870 the Omani Sultan of ........ got permission from the Geledi Sultan to build a fort in Mogadishu. The fort, but not the land it was built on, was sold to Italy in 1905.
The Dahlak Islanders, in Eritrea, converted to Islam in the early eighth century after conquest by the ....... Caliphate, some of the first from the Horn of Africa to do so.
....., the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, was first written down in Ethiopia during the 7th century BC, when most of the world was still illiterate.
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the mad Mullah, was the leader of the Dervish state and fought a 20 year war of resistance against the christian powers of Ethiopia, Italy and ......
The 1884 Hewitt Treaty meant the UK and Egypt would guarentee Ethiopia's borders in return for Ethiopian help in the ....... War. It was not honoured during the Italian invasion.
In the year ... AD Ethiopian Pirates occupied and sacked the town of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
Aside from a brief 17th century daliance with Catholocisim, the Ethiopian Church has always been ........... not Chalcedonian: they believe Christ had a single, not dual, nature.
The country of ........ voted for indepence three times, in 1958, 1967 and 1978. The first two elections, where independence was rejected, have been accused of being rigged.
The Sassanid Empire of Persia conquered the fort of Sana'a in the year ..., ending Ethiopian control over Yemen.
Ethiopia was completely occupied by the Kingdom of ..... in 1936. It had been the only native african kingdom not to be conquered by non africans before that point.
In 1977-78 Ethiopia handed out decisive military defeats to Somalia at Harar and the Eritrean rebels at Barentu thanks to 20,000 foreign troops from ...., the USSR and South Yemen.
A 1983-85 famine in Ethiopia led to more than 400,000 deaths. The .... Aid music concert was held in London to raise money for it's victims.
In 2005 the WHO estimated that about 97.9% of Somalia's women and girls underwent ....... mutilation. By 2013 it had become rare in the northern regions of Puntland and Somaliland.
After a 2009 hijacking, Captain ........ of the MV Maersk Andaman was held hostage for five days by Somali Pirates before being rescued by the US navy.
The northwest of Somalia has been run by an unrecognised self declared state, the Republic of .........., since 1991. The area has been mostly untouched by the Somali civil war.
The rich land of ...., a trading partner of Ancient Egypt from the 26th to 11th centuries BC, is most commonly thought to have been in the Horn of Africa.
Siad ..... was the Communist leader of Somalia from when he seized power in a 1969 coup d'état until he was toppled in the 1986-91 Somali Rebellion.
The Somali trader Abd al-Aziz became a King in the modern day country of .......... during the 14th century.
Some of the Sahabah, the first followers of ........, fled to Christian Ethiopia in 613 where they were given shelter from persecution by pagans.
The Zemene Mesafint or Age of Princes, the time between 1769 and 1855 when Ethiopia had no effective central authority, was ended by ........ II, the founder of modern Ethiopia.
The worst famine to ever effect the Horn of Africa happened in the 1890s when Italian cattle caused an epizootic of the .......... virus which wiped out millions of farm animals.
The Eritrean Liberation Front was replaced as the main independence movement in Eritrea by the Eritrean ........ Liberation Front after two civil wars among the rebels.
The Qey Shibir, or Ethiopian Red Terror, was a violent campaign of opression launched by the .... communist junta after they overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie.
...... soldiers were common during the Ethiopian Civil War. They made up to a third of all fighters for both the Eritrean Rebels, and later Army, and the Tigrayan peasant revolt.
Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean journalist imprisoned and tortured without trial by his government, became a cause celebre in the country of ...... where he lived from 1987-1993.
Emperor Yohannes IV was killed in battle with the Mahdist troops of Sudan in 1889 and was succeeded by ....... II, one of Ethiopia's greatest Emperors.
The central deity of pre christian Ethiopia was ....., an ancient Semitic deity associated with Venus, who was also worshipped as a rain god in Arabia.
The ....... of Axum, a 1,700-year-old, 24-metre-tall granite monument, was taken to Italy as war booty in 1937 and only returned and reconstructed in 2008.
The Al-Shabaab Somali jihadist terrorist group pledged allegance to ........ in 2012.
The Organisation of African ....., the precursor to the African Union, was founded in Addis Ababa in 1963 by Haile Selassie, it's first chairperson.
Gaius Julius Solinus, a Roman author, wrote in the 3rd century about the Ethiopian ...., a species endemic to the modern country.
Emperor Haile Selassie disolved the Eritrean .......... and the Ethiopia-Eritrea federation in 1961, annexing Eritrea directly to Ethiopia.
Wehib Pasha was an Ottoman General whose personal conflicts with Mustafa Kemal ....... meant he left Turkey for Ethiopia where he fought against the Italian Invasion.
The sacking of the town of Barawa by the Portuguese in 1506 led the ...... Sultanate to form an anti-portugese alliance with the Ottoman Empire.
One of the richest ever black men, Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi, was born and raised in Ethiopia, though he made his fortune in ............ where he owns a construction buisness.
Sambusas, a popular food in the Horn of Africa, originated in ...., where they were called Sanbosags, and were discovered by Somali Sailors in India, where they are called Samosas.
The oldest mosque in Somalia, the Masjid al-Qiblatayn in the town of ....., dates back to the 7th century.
The Eritrean armed forces are one of the largest and best funded in the World, since independence they have fought border wars with Ethiopia, Sudan, ..... and Djibouti.
Sultan Ahmed Yusuf of Geledi established mock axe ........ as the central event of the annual Istunka or Dabshid Festival in the town of Afgooye.
Tewodros II killed himself in the year .... while the citadel of Magdala was under attack by British troops trying to free Tewodros' European hostages.
The great singer Tilahun Gessesse first became famous while in the band of the Kebur Zabagna or Imperial ........, and so was arrested after their failed 1960 coup attempt.
Abune Antonios, the third Patriach of the Church of ......., was forcefully deposed by the government in 2007.
Franch Somaliland was the last French possession in Africa to remain loyal to the ..... State, surrendering to Free French forces only on 26 December 1942.
In 2016 the American TV series Preacher debuted on AMC. Ruth ....., an Ethiopian-Irish actress born in Addis Ababa, starred as the female lead, Tulip.
On 24 April 1992 .... Mohamed Abdulmajid, a Somalian fashion model and actress, married English rock musician David Bowie.
Hamid Idris ..... was a veteran of the Italian WW2 Army who led Eritrean armed resistance against first the British Military administration and later Ethiopia.
Kitaw Ejigu was an Ethiopian scientist who worked for .... as Chief of Spacecraft and Satellite Systems engineer.
Kaldi was a goatherd from Ethiopian folklore who, according to popular legend, discovered the ...... plant native to the region.
In the 7th century the Somali clans developed a traditional legal system known as .... where disputes are resolved on a case to case basis with no blanket laws.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims to possess the ... of the Covenant, the chest containing the ten commandments, in a church in Axum.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somalian born feminist and anti-theist, resigned from the Dutch Parliament in 2006 after admitting that she had lied on her ...... application.
The 2009 film biography '..... Flower' cast Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede as the Somalian model Waris Dirie.
After rejecting British attempts to give Eritrean territory to Sudan in 1947, the .............. voted to join Eritrea in federation with Ethiopia in 1950.
In 1541 the European country of ........ sent an army under Cristóvão da Gama to save Ethiopia from a Somali-Ottoman invasion.
Hassan al-Jabarti was a Somali mathematician, theologian, astronomer and philosopher who lived in the Egyptian city of ..... during the 18th century.
Islam in late 19th century Somalia was influenced by the Salihiyah doctrine of the Dervish, introduced by Imams from ......., and the rival Qadiriyya movement of Uways al-Barawi.
The occupation of the city of ........ by troops from the breakaway state of Somaliland was the subject of a protest folk song by Saado Ali Warsame.
1970's 'From a Crooked ...' was the first published novel by esteemed Somalian novelist Nuruddin Farah.
There were US-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational peacekeeping forces known as UNOSOM and UNITAF operating in ....... from 1992 to 1995.
King Endubis became the first ruler in the Horn of Africa to print his own currency, gold and silver coins enscribed with ..... letters, in around 280 AD.
During the reign of Tsar ........ II, several notable Russian adventures visited Ethiopia where they agreed to an alliance and helped modernise the Ethiopian Army.
Ethiopia's crushing victory over an Italian Army at the Battle of Adwa in the year .... ensured their continuing independence.
The country of Eritrea won it's independence in the year .... after a 32 year long war. It's first, and so far only, President was Isaias Afwerki.
Two United States UH-60 ........... helicopters were downed in Somalia by the United Somali Congress during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu.
Ewostatewos was an ethiopian monk who visited Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1330s to argue for the celebratian of a two day ....... observed on both Saturday and Sunday.
Numerous fossil finds relating to human evolution have been found in the country of ....... including the oldest homo sapiens remains.
Ras Alula Engida won two battles against the Khevidate of ..... in 1875 and 1876 to secure Ethiopian control of inland Eritrea. Though it wasn't recognised by them until 1884.
Saint Yared, born in the year ..., wrote many of the hymns and chants still performed today in the Ethiopian Church.
The rise of Islam in North Africa meant Europe only had sporadic contact with Ethiopia and led to the incorrect Iberian belief that the Ethiopian Emperor was called ....... John.
Haile Gerima, an Ethiopian filmmaker, is best known for directing ......., the 1993 Burkinabé drama film about the Atlantic slave trade.
Emperor Zara Yaqob built the church of Debre Berhan on the execution site of 33 heretics after he saw a sign of approval from God in the sky, assumed to be ......'s Comet
The Church of Saint George in the city of Lalibela was carved from a single block of .... limestone.
The Great ..... Migrations of the 16th and 17th centuries saw the arrival of great numbers of Kenyan pastoral herders in Ethiopia where they would become the dominant ethnicity.
The 1935 death of pilot Tito Minniti, allegedly after torture by Ethiopian troops, was used as a justification for the use of ....... gas and civilian bombings by the Italian Army.
In 1960, at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe ...... became the first sub saharan african to win a gold medal when he won the men's marathon.
Mo Farah, the Somalian born British distance runner, won two gold medals at the .... Summer Olympics in London.
...... Samuelsson, a chef born in Ethiopia but adopted by a Swedish family as a child, served as guest chef for the first state dinner of the Barack Obama presidency.
The .... people started two insurgencies in the early 90s. The first, against the government of Djibouti, lasted from 1991-94 and the second, against Ethiopia, from 1995-2016.
In 1936, a month after his country was conquered, Emperor Haile Selassie gave a speech to the League of Nations saying 'It is us ..... It will be you tomorrow.'
Somali women often wear body art made with ..... dye on their hands, arms, feet and neck during religious festivals and celebrations.
From 2007 to 2011 the world record in men's marathon running was held by the Ethiopian long distance runner ..... Gebrselassie.
The Jewish kingdom of Semien was conquered by the Ethiopians in the early 17th century after a series of long wars, the newly aquired Jewish citizens were known as the .... Israel.
In 1888, the British established a protectorate over the Warsangali Sultanate, '....'s butcher's shop', to ensure supplies of meat for their nearby naval base.
In 2011, troops from the country of ..... joined up with the Ethiopian and Somalian armies in an offensive against Al-Shabaab militants.
Zheng He, a Chinese admiral from the .... Dynasty, visited the city of Mogadishu in 1430 where he demonstrated the use of gunpowder weapons to the Somali kings.
Slavery was common in Ethiopia, Abba Jifar is recorded as paying five slaves for a dental appointment in the 1890s, and it was not outright banned until the year ....
The ............. thaler was a silver bullion coin minted in Vienna that became the preferred currency of the Horn of Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1940 Italy declared war on the UK and quickly conquered British Somaliland and Kassalla in Sudan. By 1941 the British counterattack had taken all of Italian ... Africa.
The Italian ...... troops, made up of native Somalians and Eritreans, proved their worth in 1893 when they decisively defeated the Madhists at the Second Battle of Agordat.
3,158 Ethiopians served in '...... Battalions' during the Korean War. Uniquely among the UN forces, none of their men were taken prisoner alive by the communists.
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