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Overview of Ethiopia's involvement in military history
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History of Ethiopia
Early history
Prehistory
Dʿmt
980 – 400 BC
Middle Ages
Aksum
100 – 940 AD
Zagwe dynasty
900–1270
Early Solomonic period
1270–1529
Amda Seyon's Expansions
1314–1344
Early modern history
Ethiopian–Adal War
1527–1543
Oromo migrations
1543 – 17th cent.
Habesh Eyalet
1557 – 17th cent.
Gondarine period
1632–1769
Zemene Mesafint
1769–1855
Ottoman border conflict
1832–1848
Modern history
Unification
1855–1913
Menelik's Invasions
1878–1904
First Italo–Ethiopian War
1895–1896
Modernization
1913–1974
World War I
1914–1918
Second Italo–Ethiopian War
1935–1936
Italian East Africa
1936–1941
World War II
1941
Italian guerrilla war
1941–1943
Federation with Eritrea
1952–1962
Eritrean Independence War
1961–1991
Ethiopian Civil War
1974–1991
Ogaden War
1977–1978
Recent history
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
1998–2000
Eritrean border conflict
1998–2018
Police massacre
2005
War in Somalia
2006–2009
East Africa drought
2011–2012
Oromo protests
2014–2016
Ethiopian civil conflict
2018–present
Tigray War
2020–2022
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Menelik II leading his army before the Battle of Adwa
The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC. Ethiopia has been involved in many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was one of the few native African nations which remained independent during the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army. 19th and 20th century Ethiopian Military history is characterized by conflicts with the Dervish State, Mahdist Sudan, Egypt, and Italy (which annexed Ethiopia to Italian East Africa, for 5 years until its liberation during WWII), and later by a civil war.
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