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This study replaces Ethiopia: A Country Study, which was completed in 1980--six years after a group of military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie I and eventually established a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. By 1990 this regime, led by Mengistu Haile Mariam, was on the verge of collapse, largely because of its inability to defeat two insurgencies in the northern part of the country...... Read more |
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From distant past to the dawn of Islam, Gamal Nkrumah looks at the history of this African nation..... Read more |
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Aksum (also spelled Axum) is the name of a powerful, urban Iron Age Kingdom in Ethiopia, that flourished in the centuries before and after the time of Christ...... Read more |
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Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE Selected excerpts from Herodotus, Strabo, Dio Cassius, and Procopius of Caesarea...... Read more |
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