| Ethiopian-Somali Monarchy የኢትዮጵያ ሶማሌ ንጉሳዊ አገዛዝ Timeline: Triangles and Crosses
Ye’ītiyop’iya Somalē Nigusawī Āgezazi (Amharic) ቦቆርቶኦያዲኢ ኢቶኦቢያ-ሶኦመሊዳ Boqortooyadii Itoobiya-Soomaalida (Somali) Ethiopia-Somalia OTL equivalent: Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti Austria-Hungary (government) | ||||||
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 Localization of Ethiopia (green) and Somalia (yellow).
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| Capital | Addis Ababa Mogadishu | |||||
| Largest city | Addis Ababa | |||||
| Other cities | Hargeisa Gondar Mek'ele |
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| Official languages | Amharic Somali |
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| Religion | 71.2% Christianity 27.6% Islam 1.2% Others |
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| Demonym | Ethiopian Somalian |
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| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional dual monarchy | |||||
| - | Monarch | Zera Selassie | ||||
| - | Premier of Ethiopia | Abiy Ahmed | ||||
| - | Prime Minister of Somalia | Hassan Sheikh Mohamud | ||||
| Legislature | Imperial Parliament | |||||
| - | Upper house | Consultative Assembly | ||||
| - | Lower house | House of Representatives (Ethiopia) National Assembly (Somalia) |
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| Establishment | ||||||
| - | Ethiopian Empire | 1270 | ||||
| - | Campaigns of the Horn | 16th–18th century | ||||
| - | Solomon Era | 1870–1914 | ||||
| - | Admitted to the Society of Nations | 20 September 1948 | ||||
| - | Compromise of 1950 | 31 January 1950 | ||||
| - | Derg | 12 September 1974 | ||||
| - | Cyan Revolution | 19 November 2006 | ||||
| - | Current constitution | 21 August 2009 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 1,882,757 km2 726,937 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | 2023 estimate | 136,407,447 | ||||
| Gini (2020) | 39.8 (high) | |||||
| HDI (2020) | 0.741 (high) | |||||
| Currency | Birr (ETB) |
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| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) | |||||
| Date formats | dd/mm/yyyy | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| Internet TLD | .et .so |
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| Calling code | +251 | |||||
Ethiopia-Somalia, officially the Ethiopian-Somali Monarchy, is a constitutional dual monarchy located in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with the Indian Ocean to the east, Sudan to the northwest, White Nile to the west, and East Africa to the south, while also sharing maritime borders with Arabia by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. While fitting in the conditions of a country, Ethiopia-Somalia considers itself a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states with a single monarch. While it doesn't have a defined capital, Addis Ababa serves as the primary capital of the union, where the Monarchy and the Consultative Assembly sits.
The Ethiopian Empire began with Yekuno Amlak in 1270, who inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty, who claimed descent from the biblical Solomon and Queen of Sheba under their son Menelik I. By the 14th century, the empire grew in prestige through territorial expansion and fighting against adjacent territories, during the Campaigns of the Horn, in which Ethiopia expanded throughout the Gulf of Aden until the Jubba River.
In the Solomon period, Ethiopia adopted a Western-style constitution, worked to be more involved with European nations, especially Russia and Greece, and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization. During the World War II, it briefly sided with Russia, before being pressured by the United Commonwealth. In 1950, amidst growing nationalism, the empire was reformed into the Ethiopia-Somalia monarchy, siding with the Western powers during the Cold War. Between 1974 and 2006, the country was ruled by the socialist military junta of the Derg. With the Cyan Revolution, the country became again a democracy, adopting a new constitution.
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