Political Era
The Era of Princes (Zemene Mesafint)
1769 – 1855
Draft — not yet source-verified
A period of decentralization in which regional lords held effective power while the emperor at Gondar reigned with little real authority, until reunification began in the mid-nineteenth century.
Schema-test stub (draft). Lens: the dispersal of sovereignty among regional lords and the hollowing-out of the imperial center. Full content to follow.
Sources
- Harold G. Marcus, A History of Ethiopia, updated ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).