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  Emperor of Ethiopia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Emperor was not only the (The chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government) head of state, but the ultimate (Persons who administer the law) executive, (additional info and facts about judicial) judicial and (additional info and facts about legislative power) legislative power in that country.
Although the Emperor of Ethiopia possessed unlimited powers over his subjects, his councilors came to play an increasing role in governing Ethiopia because many Emperors were succeeded either by a child, or one of the incarcerated princes, who could only successfully leave their prisons with help from the outside.
The position of the Emperor was defined in both of the constitutions adopted during the reign of (Emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975)) Haile Selassie: the one adopted on July 16, 1931; and the one of November, 1955.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emperor_of_ethiopia.htm   (1096 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Menelik II of Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The son of King Haile Melekot of Shoa 1847 to 1855, was born in 1844 in Ankober, Shoa and heir to the Shewan branch of the Solomonic Dynasty which claimed descent from King Solomon of ancient Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
The succession now lay between the late emperor’s natural son, the Ras Mangasha, and Menelek of Shoa, but the latter was able to obtain the aliegance of a large majority of the nobility on November 4, and consecrated and Crowned as Emperor Menelik II shortly afterwards.
Emperor Menelik II died on December 12th, 1913, and is buried at the Baeta Le Mariam Monastery Church of Addis Ababa.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Menelik-II-of-Ethiopia   (1218 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first Latin Emperors of Constantinople on the other hand had to be present in the newly conquered capital of their Empire, because that was the only place where they could be granted to become Emperor.
Instead, these first Emperors constructed their office as a complicated collection of offices, titles, and honours, that were consolidated around a single person and his closest relatives (while in the republic the "taking of turns", often in shared offices, had been the principle for passing on power).
Emperor Karl of Austria, the last ruling hereditary monarch in that country, "relinquished every participation in the administration of the State" on November 11, 1918.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Emperor   (5972 words)

  
 IMPERIAL ETHIOPIA HOME PAGE
During the reign of Emperor Tekle Giorgis I, in an attempt at consolidating declining Imperial power, the Emperor proclamed the imposition of new taxes on the population of Beghemidir, (in particular a tax on honey produced) the Province in which the capital, Gondar, was located.
Emperor Tekle Giorgis I was informed that he was to refrain from participating in affairs of state, and symply reign from his thone as the supreme source of legitimacy, and a symbol of sovreignity, but devoid of all power.
Emperor Yohannis III was deposed and expelled from the Palace compound in Gondar and went to live in another house in the city.
www.angelfire.com /ny/ethiocrown   (3574 words)

  
 Major Tourist Attractions
Ethiopia is a land of rugged mountains (some are over 4000 meters high) broad savannah, lakes and rivers.
Ethiopia, after the rains, is a land decked with flowers and with many more native plants than most countries in Africa.
Ethiopia is often referred to as the ‘water tower’ of Eastern Africa because of the many rivers that pour off the high tableland.
www.ethioembassy.org.uk /tourism/contents/attractions.htm   (1712 words)

  
 Emperor articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The first Latin Empire of ConstantinopleLatin Emperors of Constantinople on the other hand had to be present in the newly conquered capital of their Empire, because that was the only place where they could be granted to become Emperor.
The Byzantine Emperors completed the transition from the idea of the Emperor as a semi-republican official to the Emperor as a traditional monarch when Emperor Heraclius took the title of Basileus (the original Greek languageGreek word for "King") in the seventh century.
On 25 December, 800, CharlemagneCharles I, List of Frankish KingsKing of the Franks, was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome.
www.startlearningnow.com /Emperor.htm   (5707 words)

  
 Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
List of Earldoms in the Peerage of England
List of Earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland
List of Earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland
www.freeglossary.com /i34j40.html   (93 words)

  
 Ethiopia and the Question of the Restoration of Cultural Property: A General Statement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Times, reporting this, stated that "envoys from the Emperor were sent over to arrange for their [the manuscripts'] recovery, and it is believed that the present bequest is the fulfillment of a promise then given".
Ethiopia was at that time facing major economic and financial difficulties, as a result of which its Government made some concessions which obviously would not otherwise have been made.
Ethiopia lost much of her cultural heritage as a result of the British expedition to Maqdala in 1868 and the Italian Fascist invasion of 1935-41.
www.afromet.org /generalstatement.html   (7630 words)

  
 Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Amharic ኢትዮጵያ Ityop'iya) is a country situated in the Horn of Africa.
The early 20th century was marked by the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, who undertook the modernization of Ethiopia, despite several years of occupation by Italy (1936-1942).
In April 2005, the Axum obelisk, one of Ethiopia's religous and historical treasures, was returned to Ethiopia by Italy http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4458105.stm.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Ethiopia.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Ethiopia & the Timkat Festival - Axum, Lalibela, Gondar, Lake Tana, Omo Valley Tribes
Ethiopia is like no other place in Africa, from its Orthodox Christian heritage, breathtakingly displayed in Lalibela's 12th century rockhewn churches, to its kaleidoscopic array of animist tribes in the Great Rift Valley.
Here we discover Ethiopia's amazing tribal heritage as we visit villages of traditional peoples like the Mursi, with their enormous clay lip plates, and the nomadic Karo, with their elaborate body painting and adornments.
Explore Axum, Ethiopia's most sacred city, where according to Ethiopian legend, the Ark of the Covenant resides within a special chapel at the Church of St. Mary of Zion.
www.wildernesstravel.com /itins/ethiopia.html   (399 words)

  
 Tigrai.org: Ethiopia - Tigrai news and information page.
At the heart of the Horn of Africa, it is bounded to the north by Eritrea, to the west by the Sudan and to the east and south by the Afar and Amhara Regions of Ethiopia.
With a population of 125,000, the capital of the Emperor Yohannes IV (1871-1889), Mekelle is the Capital and the main town of Tigray.
The famous battle of Adwa, where in 1896 the Ethiopian people under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II defeated the Italians, was dramatically influenced by its location in the rugged highlands of Tigrai.
www.tigrai.org /TNTourism.html   (1724 words)

  
 Emperors of Ethiopia
Ethiopia was finally only conquered, briefly, between 1936 and 1941, by Italy, not, significantly, in the 19th century "scramble for Africa," but in the age of totalitarian conquest in the 1930's.
While Ethiopia had preserved its independence and Christian religion for centuries against Islâm, constantly enduring the depredations of Arab slavers, many, or most, of whose male victims were castrated, many foreign fls now blame and reject Christianity for the Atlantic slave trade which took their ancestors to the New World.
Ethiopia and her religion thus receive some respect from a source that, in general, one might have expected to be relatively unaware of the country and relatively hostile to the religion.
www.friesian.com /ethiopia.htm   (1942 words)

  
 Patrick Ball lied about Yugoslavia
It is obvious from the above list that Patrick Ball is considered a leader in the application of science to questions of human rights abuses around the world, and it seems he has a hand in deciding "who did what to whom" (it's the title of his book) in just about every conflict.
Emperor’s Clothes has an interview with an Albanian who fled to Belgrade during the bombing, escaping the campaign of intimidation that the KLA directed on Kosovo Albanians in order to make them flee.
Emperor's Clothes is where you come for *rigorously documented* information and analysis that exposes how the mainstream media deceives people about US foreign policy.
emperors-clothes.com /gilwhite/ball.htm   (6859 words)

  
 Ethiopian Fettan Graphics Home Page
Ethiopia Answers Western Critics (news.bbc.co.uk, 11/13/05) "Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi has defended his handling of opposition protests last week, in which demonstrators were shot by police and leaders arrested.
Ethiopia Bids To Quell Violence (news.bbc.co.uk, 11/05/05) "Sporadic violence was reported in Ethiopia on Saturday as police and troops tried to quell unrest blamed for at least 46 deaths this week.
Harsh UN Words For Ethiopia, Eritrea (mg.co.za, 10/27/05) "In response to warnings of a dangerous crisis brewing between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demands that they immediately agree to an international commission's decision ruling on their border, which Ethiopia has rejected.
www.fettan.com   (5292 words)

  
 Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms of dynasties and rulers, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life of the people.
Thus, Romans who cared to think about the meaning of their situation, like the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, saw themselves embodying the Stoic moral ideal of the cosmopolis ("world state/city"), where citizenship is humanity and there is no difference between Greek (or Roman) and Barbarian.
The arrangement of these lists thus follows Bryce's principle of universalist ideology, centering on Rome but extending to similar to ideas outside of the Roman world.
www.friesian.com /histindx.htm   (3012 words)

  
 Aksum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border.
They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia.
Long after its political decline in the 10th century, Ethiopian emperors continued to be crowned in Aksum.
whc.unesco.org /sites/15.htm   (93 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
This (by no means comprehensive!) list chronicles some of the major events in the history of paleontology and biology.
The bone is inscribed with its discovery date and the motto of Emperor Frederick III, and chained to one of the cathedral doors.
She suggests that both were engulfed by other cells and began functioning as symbionts.
www.strangescience.net /timeline.htm   (10954 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Royalty & Nobility
Lists of officials who served in the departments of central government since the Restoration.
Listing of noble and aristocratic families in and from the Kingdom of Sweden.
A multilingual English-French- German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the ancient nobility of the Alsatian-Rhenan area (Alsace, France and the Rhenish Palatinate/German Rheinpfalz, Germany).
www.cyndislist.com /royalty.htm   (2388 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Royal History
The short life and mysterious death of King Tut, the story of Cleopatra; the royal history of Ethiopia and the life of its last emperor; royalty in Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, and Nubia; and more about Royalty in Africa, past and present.
Learn about the First Emperor, who built the Great Wall and was buried with the famous army of terra-cotta warriors; Tzu Hsi, who rose from concubine to empress; the last emperor, P'u Yi; and the rest of China's imperial history.
English Royal History; Boadicea; Alfred the Great; William the Conqueror; Eleanor of Aquitaine; the Tudors; the Stuarts; the Hanoverians, the madness of King George III, the scandalous behavior of Bad Queen Caroline, the lives of Queen Victoria and her family; Jack the Ripper; the Windsors; plus Scottish Royal History and Welsh Royal History.
www.royalty.nu /history/index.html   (1218 words)

  
 List of state leaders in 1728   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
List of state leaders in 1727 1727 state leaders - 1728 Events of 1728 - List of state leaders in 1729 1729 state leaders - State leaders by year -
China (Qing Dynasty) - Yongzheng Emperor of China Yongzheng, Emperor of China (1723- 1735)
Monarch - Frederick I of Sweden Frederick I, List of Swedish monarchs King of Sweden (1720- 1751)
read-and-go.hopto.org /1728/List-of-state-leaders-in-1728.html   (421 words)

  
 "The Trail of Blood . . ."   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He saw in the skies a fiery red cross and on that cross written in fiery letters these words--"By this thou shalt conquer." He interpreted it to mean that he should become a Christian.
In the organization of the Hierarchy, Christ was dethroned as head of the churches and Emperor Constantine enthroned (only temporarily, however) as head of the church.
The Church, the adulterous bride at the marriage with the State in 313 in the days of CONSTANTINE THE Great, has now become the head of the house, and is now dictating politics of State government, and kings and queens are made or unmade at her pleasure.
users.aol.com /libcfl/trail.htm   (17869 words)

  
 Ethiopian Orthodox links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A guide to Ethiopia and brief introduction of the church ttp://www.gondarlink.org.uk/guide/ethiopia/religion/orthodox.shtml
The Association for the Return of The Maqdala (or Magdala) Ethiopian Treasures - is an international organisation dedicated to retrieving priceless treasures looted during the British invasion of Ethiopia in 1867-8.
List of Emperors who ruled the ancient glorious Ethiopia http://www.friesian.com/ethiopia.htm
www.ethiopianorthodox.org /links.htm   (768 words)

  
 Ethiopia.htm
The Dismemberment of Ethiopia: The U.N. and Boutros-Boutros Ghali
Embassy of Ethiopia in the United State (Washington, D.C.)
Ethiopia - Library of Congress / Country Studies
www.ethiopic.com /Ethiopia.htm   (56 words)

  
 Loeb Classical Library/Complete Catalog by Author
The correspondence of FrontoÑa much admired orator and rhetorician who was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius VerusÑoffers an invaluable picture of aristocratic life and literary culture in the 2nd century.
When the citizens of Antioch jeered at the emperor's "philosophical" beard, he responded with a satire on his own appearance and austere life style.
A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, and a potent spokesman for private and political causes, Libanius has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of the 4th century.
www.hup.harvard.edu /loeb/author.html   (12202 words)

  
 Zegrahm Expeditions - Travel Destinations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Emperors of Antarctica: An Expedition to the Ross Sea
Choose a trip or region from our list of all destinations:
If there is a time of year, region of the world, or activity you are interested in, use our destination search below to narrow down our destination options.
www.zeco.com /destinations   (126 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Rastafari Ible: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This is a great reference book detailing the kingship of Ethiopia as a national state.
Jahson does a great job entailing the story and works of some past Emperors of Ethiopia.
But this is a good reference book of the history of Ethiopia as a Christian state, and the emergence of Ethiopian from it's pre-Christianity history.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0948390123?v=glance   (763 words)

  
 CYBERBOARD Gamebox Availability List
Promise to update this webpage after a long dry spell due to night classes at the local college.
With so many places to get gameboxes this page will become a link of places to get gameboxes, not a list of what is available.
Deletions occur on request or due to bad links.
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