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The history of Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, formally begins with the founding of the city in the 19th century by Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II and his wife Empress Taytu Betul. In its first years the city was more like a military encampment than a town. The central focus was the emperor’s palace, which was surrounded by the dwellings of ...
Oct 9, 2024 · The city was thus founded in 1887 and was named Addis Ababa (“New Flower”) by the empress. In its first years the city was more like a military encampment than a town. The central focus was the emperor’s palace, which was surrounded by the dwellings of his troops and of his innumerable retainers.
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Addis Ababa University was founded in 1950 and was originally named "University College of Addis Ababa", then renamed in 1962 for the former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I who had donated his Genete Leul Palace to be the university's main campus in the previous year. It is the home of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and the Ethnological Museum.
Addis Ababa, Capital and largest city (pop., 2007 est.: 3,100,000) of Ethiopia. It lies on a plateau in the country’s geographic centre at an altitude of about 8,000 ft (2,450 m). The city was founded as the capital in 1887 because of the unsatisfactory location of the former capital, Entoto. Addis Ababa was the capital of Italian East Africa ...
Addis Ababa was founded as a military garrison in 1887 by the Amhara king and later Emperor Menilek II of Ethiopia. Its foundation was the result of a long historical process in which Christian Ethiopia (then known as Abyssinia) expanded southward, culminating in large-scale conquest and the creation of the largest empire in the region in the last decade of the 19th century.
Mar 16, 2010 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1886- ) Addis Ababa was the last imperial capital of Ethiopia and serves as the capital of the modern state of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa came into existence in 1886 as a mineral springs resort for Ethiopia’s royal family and nobility. In 1892, Emperor Menilek II (r. 1889-1913) made it the capital when he constructed his ...
Apr 29, 2021 · April 29, 2021. The world’s third highest capital, the center of the African Union dubbed “The Capital of Africa”; Addis Ababa boasts an enormous prestige in the continental and global stage alike. Ethiopia’s almost 200 years old capital was established sometime around 1889 by Ethiopia’s famed emperor Menilik II, the legendary victor ...
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