Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa bordered by Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan and Sudan, with Addis Ababa as its capital and largest city and the headquarters of the African Union Commission. The Ethiopian Empire traces its establishment to 1270, and Ethiopia holds an exceptional place in African history for repelling foreign invasions, defeating Italian forces at the Battle of Adwa in 1896 and, alongside Liberia, remaining among the only African states never fully colonized during the Scramble for Africa, despite a brief Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941 that ended with the restoration of sovereignty in 1944. A Soviet-backed military government, the Derg, ruled from 1974 to 1991. Ethiopia operates today as a federal parliamentary republic under an authoritarian government, and with approximately 138 million people as of 2025 it is the tenth most populous country in the world and the second most populous in Africa.
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Government TypeFederal parliamentary republic under an authoritarian government 1 Government type (class) Government type (class) Classification
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Was Ethiopia invaded by Italy more than once?
Yes, in 1895 and again in 1935.
Yes. The Italian invasions of 1895 and 1935 forced Ethiopia into greater contact with world politics. The United States Office of the Historian describes Ethiopia as long isolated, with its emperors beginning to consolidate the country in the mid-nineteenth century before those two invasions.
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Federal parliamentary republic under an authoritarian government
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Addis Ababa
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The Shewan usurper, Yekuno Amlak, overthrew the dynasty in 1270 at the Battle of Ansata, inaugurating the Ethiopian Empire and the Solomonic dynasty - asserting its lineage through Aksumite legitimacy by the biblical Solomon and Queen of Sheba, and Menelik I was the first emperor.
Ethiopia: Status
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa bordered by Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan and Sudan, with Addis Ababa as its capital and largest city and the headquarters of the African Union Commission.
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Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
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