Borders of Ethiopia

A timelapse of empires in the Horn of Africa · 2500 BCE – 2026 CE

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Also on the map

Sources & caveats

Pre-modern borders are best-effort approximations, not surveyed lines — frontiers were fuzzy zones. Confidence drops the further back you go.

Current era's extent

Previous era (dashed)

Present-day Ethiopia (reference)

Rival / other power

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Speed