What will happen to Addis Ababa if Ethiopia falls apart?

[Mooge]

[Mooge]

The largest groups include the Amhara 56.04%, Oromo 19.00%, Gurage 16.34%, Tigray 5.18%, Silt'e 2.94%, and Gamo 1.68%. 

 

niyoow the AU will quickly send 100,000 peacekeepers and quell any disintegration. even China may send troops to protect its investments and prevent ethiopian collapse.

 

this whole talk of a coming collapse is a pipedream. 

[Che -Guevara]

More powerful empires have been condemned to the dustbins of history. I don't see how Abyssinia is any different.

 

Addis will simply become Finfinnee or be flattened. 

[Old_Observer]

Too many interests in it. Its like Djibouti. Everyone wants it to just be there, China, Turkey, Russia, USA, Britain, Canada, Germany...who is who in the world seems to have something there.

Che,

 

Which empire are you looking at, Axum is long gone, Ethiopia before 1890 the advent of Amhara is long gone, Eritrea and parts of Sudan are debris from prior to 1890.

The After 1890 Ethiopia is exactly as is today, except the status of the Somali that was under British until 1950s.

[Che -Guevara]

That was general statement but if you want to get specific, Ethiopia is a landlocked. Need I say more?

[Old_Observer]

42 minutes ago, Che -Guevara said:

That was general statement but if you want to get specific, Ethiopia is a landlocked. Need I say more?

Yes sir. You need to say more.

 

The landlocked Ethiopia of today is the same landlocked Ethiopia of 1890. The advent of the Amhara king.

Rather than fight any of the Europeans, he sold Eritrea to italy, Djibouti to French, parts of Sudan to British Empire. he even got rewarded for not disputing Zeila a sultanate that was connected to Ethiopia. Remeber that the British offered Zeila more than once to Ethiopia, including in 1950s after the failure of making all Somali in one country.

This Ethiopia that you see today is exactly the same as it was in the 1890s.

Ethiopia before that was far to north, north west and east. The king then last one of that Ethiopia was Tigray. He had 4 kingdoms under kings and 3 sultanates under him. BTW amazingly the federal system looks same as the kingdoms and sultanates of then. fully autonomous. His wife was an Afar.

 

But generally I agree that even the Ottomans are gone even if Turkey the home of the empire, is one of the most important countries in the world. Westerners say every dog has his day.

 

Its amazing though societies have memory. Its very easy for Erdogan to tell the turks that they can be great society in the future, since they ones have been there. In a much smaller scale its also same for the Ethiopians