Imperialism In Ethiopia

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Following the invasion, Mussolini announced that Ethiopia was now a part of his Italian Empire. This led to the Emperor taking a pilgrimage to churches in one of the holiest cities in Ethiopia, despite the substantial risk of him getting captured before making it back to his home in Addis Ababa. Many Ethiopian officials relocated to a southern Ethiopian town named Gore after the council agreed that the capital, Addis Ababa couldn't be properly protected and fortified in time. All members of the imperial royal family excluding Selassie himself relocated to Jerusalem directly from Djibouti while council determined whether the Emperor should be sent to Gore with the remaining government officials or to accompany his family to Jerusalem due to exile. After serious consideration, council agreedSelassie should leave with his family away from Ethiopia and present Ethiopia's case to the League of Nations for all of the world …show more content…

From there, the royal family boarded British cruiser ships bound for Gibraltar and were transferred to Jerusalem by an ordinary liner so the United Kingdom's government could skip the costs of a formal state reception. Jerusalem was a part of Palestine, which was still a British colony during this time, it was also where the Ethiopian royal family maintained secondary housing. The choice of Jerusalem was profoundly symbolic because members of the Ethiopian royal bloodline claimed to be extensions of the Solomonic Dynasty and descended from the House of David.The Emperor and his followers started preparing to make their case for the League of Nations once there, but on May 5th, 1936, Italian ground forces bulldozed their way straight to the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. After capturing the capital, Mussolini announced that Ethiopia was now Italian colonial territory and declared Victor Emanuel III as the new Emperor of

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