What is Ethiopian Empire?
{{Infobox country | native_name = {{native name|gez|መንግሥተ ኢትዮጵያ |italics=no}}<br/>{{nobold|{{transl|gez|Mängəśtä ʾItyop̣p̣ya}}}} | conventional_long_name = Ethiopian Empire | era = [[Middle Ages]] to [[Cold War]] | government_type = [[Absolute monarchy]] {{small|(1270–1931)}}<ref>{{cite journal |author=Nathaniel T. Kenney |title=Ethiopian Adventure |journal=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |volume=127 |year=1965 |page=555 }}</ref><br>[[Unitary state|Unitary]] [[parliamentary]] [[constitutional monarchy]] {{small|(1931–1974)}} | life_span = 1270–1974<br/>{{nowrap|{{small|{{nobold|1936–1941: [[Ethiopian Empire in exile|Government-in-exile]]}}}}}} | event_start = [[Yekuno Amlak#Reign|Ascension]] of [[Yekuno Amlak]] | date_start = | year_start = 1270 | event1 = [[Amda Seyon I's Expansions|Conquests]] of [[Amda Seyon I]] | date_event1 = 1314–1344 | event2 = [[Ethiopian–Adal War]] | date_event2 = 1529–1543 | event3 = [[Gondarine period]] | date_event3 = 1632–1769 | event4 = [[Zemene Mesafint]] | date_event4 = 1769–1855 | event5 = [[Menelik's Expansions]] | date_event5 = 1878–1904 | event6 = [[First Italo-Ethiopian War]] | date_event6 = 1895–1896 | event7 = [[1931 Constitution of Ethiopia|Constitution adopted]] | date_event7 = 16 July 1931 | event8 = [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]] (annexed into [[Italian East Africa]]) | date_event8 = 3 October 1935 | event9 = [[East African campaign (World War II)|Sovereignty restored]] | date_event9 = 5 May 1941 | event_end = {{lang|fr|[[1974 Ethiopian coup d'état|Coup d'état]]}} by the [[Derg]] | date_end = 12 September | year_end = 1974 | event_post = [[#Fall of monarchy|Monarchy abolis