In 1952, the United Nations resolved to federate the former colony under Ethiopian rule.
The Gumuz reportedly rebelled against Ethiopian rule four separate times between 1950 and 1990.
The population is predominantly Somali, and there is internal pressure to remove Ethiopian rule.
Most traces of the Ethiopian rule have been erased, but remembrances from the Italian days endure.
The Yemenis opposed Ethiopian rule and sought the Sassanid Persians for assistance.
The people here are mostly ethnic Somalis, and they have been chafing against Ethiopian rule since 1897, when the British ceded their claims to the area.
These efforts extended Ethiopian rule for the first time across the Awash River, gaining control of Dawaro, Bale, and other Muslim states.
An analogous phenomenon is said to have occurred among the neighboring Oromo nation, which is now under Ethiopian rule.
Under Ethiopian rule many of them converted to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.
Eritrea was liberated from Ethiopian rule in 1991.