abyssinia

With Disney’s live-action Mulan remake in the headlines I thought this might make an interesting discussion. It’s inspired by posts from a few months ago: So what if the basic plot of the 1998 animated film was instead transplanted to 1930s Kingdom of Ethiopia? Thus instead of Mulan being...

Axum unites Ethiopia and Nubia and conquers Egypt, is this possible?

What if it had been Dawit II who won the Battle of Shimbra Kure? How might things have changed?

Inspired by this thread about Greater Ethiopia. As the title says, how big can Ethiopia realistically be in 19th Century of expansion? Will it turn out like these pics below or not? If not, how much territory you think can the Ethiopian Empire can realistically hold? On other...

Historically, Abyssinia/Ethiopia was unique amongst native African states in that it was able to fend off European imperialism during the Scramble of Africa in the famous Battle of Adowa of 1896, where Ethiopian forces defeated the Italians, preserving Ethiopian independence. The question is...

PART I Chapter I- The Judgement of the Great Tsar Nikolai Ashinov sits impatiently. Sitting on a chair inside the Gatchina palace waiting to have an audience with the great Romanov. He had long been fascinated with the land of Abyssinia and believed it one of the greatest lands of...

So I had an ambitious idea to write my first timeline on this site, and I need some help. I really wanted to do one on A Russian Ethiopia and had a particular idea in mind. This was the timeline I would be basing it off of...

Try to find a way for the Ottomans, from any time in history to colonize Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, basically the Horn of Africa.

So when discussing a Central Power victory, I was always interested in the effects of distant independent nations. My question, is what happens to Abyssinia, now that the central Powers won ww1? my thought was that now that Italy is weakened from losing the war, the Germans (with...

(In case the abbreviation from the title didn't tell you, this takes place in EdT's Fight and Be Right TL) How could the Abyssinians have taken Khartoum from the British? What effect would it have had on the rest of the War of the Dual Alliance if they had taken it? I can see it happening a...

Plausibility check: Abyssinia (Ethiopia) during WWI was completely surrounded by Allied territory (mostly British and Italian, but also French Somaliland). This places it in a strategically very difficult position. Nevertheless, would it have been possible for Abyssinia to declare war on the...