Yep they tried and failed. Although the Ethiopians did give up part of the section known as the Eritrea today. That is, only part of Eritrea (the Abyssinian highlands) was traditionally part of the greater Ethiopian state.
Travis
Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank scott" <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:39 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: ethiopia
> "Ethiopia is ...the only African country to never have suffered
> western charity (sarcasm) in the form of colonization."
>
> it may have been brief, but didn't italy colonize, or try to colonize,
> ethiopia during mussolini days?
>
> fs
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