Mussolini believed that the signing of the Stresa Front would mean Britain and France would not interfere in the Abyssinian crisis.

This included service in Egypt from October 1935 to 1936, during the Abyssinian crisis.

A series of international crises strained the League to its limits, the earliest being the invasion of Manchuria by Japan and the Abyssinian crisis of 1935 / 36 in which Italy invaded Abyssinia, one of the only free African nations at that time.

In October 1935 he voted in favour of sanctions against Italy over the Abyssinian crisis defying his leader John Curtin.

The results showed the Siberian and Abyssinian cat fur as having lower Fel d 1 levels than the mixed breed cat.

The Abyssinian war showed Hitler how weak the League was and encouraged his participation in the Spanish Civil War.

* The First of the League Wars, A Study of The Abyssinian War, Its Lessons and Omens ( Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1936 )

On October 3, 1935, shortly after the League exonerated both parties in the Walwal incident, Italian armed forces from Eritrea invaded Ethiopia without a declaration of war leading Ethiopia to declare war on Italy beginning the Second Italo – Abyssinian War.

Shortly after the League of Nations exonerated both parties in the Walwal incident, Italy attacked Ethiopia, resulting in the Second Italo – Abyssinian War.

*' The League ’ s Abyssinian Front ' ( Manchester Guardian, 12 March 1936 )

The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of an Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again.

Gordon, seeing that the Abyssinian difficulty could wait, proceeded to Khartoum.

The role played by the Spanish conflict as regards Italy's relations with France and England could be similar to that of the Abyssinian conflict, bringing out clearly the actual, opposing interests of the powers and thus preventing Italy from being drawn into the net of the Western powers and used for their machinations.

Thus, the pre-1931 currency could be considered the Abyssinian birr and the post-1931 currency the Ethiopian birr, although it was the same country and the same currency before and after.

Other regional powers such as the Abyssinian, Ghassan, and Lakhm were in decline leaving Meccan trade to be the primary binding force in Arabia in the late 6th century.

The commission was given evidence of the Italian policy of systematic terrorism and Graziani ’ s self-admitted intention to execute all Amharas authorities, and cited a telegram from Graziani to General Nasi, in which he had written, “ Keep in mind also that I have already aimed at the total destruction of Abyssinian chiefs and notables and that this should be carried out completely in your territories .” The UN commission agreed that there was a prima facie case against eight Italians including Graziani.

The Stresemann's Bushcrow ( Zavattariornis stresemanni ), also known as Abyssinian Pie, Bush Crow, Ethiopian Bushcrow, or by its generic name Zavattariornis, is a rather starling-like bird, which is currently thought to be member of the crow family, Corvidae, though this is uncertain.

* There is an interesting gene, not yet identified but believed to be related to the agouti gene, in the Chausie breed, that produces silver-tipped black fur similar to Abyssinian ticked fur.

As such, he was expected to pay the highest share of the annual tribute to be given to the Abyssinian Emperor.

In 1894, after eighteen years ' absence from active political life, he was chosen to be Italian arbitrator in the Bering Sea question, and in 1896 once more accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs in the Di Rudinì cabinet at a juncture when the disasters in Abyssinia and the indiscreet publication of an Abyssinian Green Book had rendered the international position of Italy exceedingly difficult.

Similarly, another term for Siddis, habshi ( from Al-Habsh, the Arabic term for Abyssinia ), is held to be derived from the common name for the captains of the Ethiopian / Abyssinian ships that also first delivered Siddi slaves to the subcontinent.

Although the official, permissible outcrosses for the Chausie breed are the Abyssinian and the domestic shorthair ( no recognizable breed ), in practice any kind of purely domestic outcross can be used.

Arab qahwah, in Turkish pronounced kahveh, the name of the infusion or beverage ; said by Arab lexicographers to have originally meant ‘ wine ’ or some kind of wine, and to be a derivative of a verb-root qahiya ‘ to have no appetite .’ Some have conjectured that it is a foreign, perhaps African, word disguised, and have thought it connected with the name of Kaffa in the south Abyssinian highlands, where the plant appears to be native.

The occupant of the " flying saucer " turns out to be a cat-like alien named Zunar-J-5 / 9 Doric-4-7, or Jake ( voiced by Ronnie Schell ) as he is called by his human friends ( a tawny Abyssinian cat ; a role shared by two cats named Amber and Rumple ).

The Italian possession of maritime areas previously claimed by Abyssinia / Ethiopia was formalized in 1889 with the signing of the Treaty of Wuchale with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia ( r. 1889 – 1913 ) after the defeat of Italy by Ethiopia at the battle of Adua where Italy launched an effort to expand its possessions from Eritrea into the more fertile Abyssinian hinterland.

The Tartars were also in contrast to the concept of Prester John, who may have been Prester Chan and, in Ludolphus's account, chased out of Asia by the Tartars and, in John Herbert's Travels, was Abyssinian.

The December 1935 Hoare – Laval Pact was an attempt by British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval to end the conflict in Abyssinia by proposing to partition the country into an Italian sector and an Abyssinian sector.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

The breed was developed by crossing the Burmese, Abyssinian, and Domestic shorthair cats to create a shorthaired cat with a spotted coat.

Information analysis has been carried out by scholars at least as early as the time of the Abyssinian Empire with the emergence of cultural depositories, what is today known as libraries and archives.

Khaki-colored uniforms were used officially by British troops for the first time during the Abyssinian campaign of 1867 – 68, when Indian troops traveled to Ethiopia ( Abyssinia ) under the command of general Sir Robert Napier to release some British captives and to " persuade the Abyssinian King Theodore, forcibly if necessary, to mend his ways ".

In May 1936, undeterred by sanctions, Italy captured Addis Ababa, the Abyssinian capital, and proclaimed Victor Emmanuel III the Emperor of Ethiopia.

The film begins in an Abyssinian castle in 50 BC, where a princess uses a pair of enchanted earrings to escape an arranged marriage by swapping bodies with a slave girl.

Already depressed over the official response to his Abyssinian command, and sick with malaria, Wingate attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the neck.

The Bijapuri force was led by Siddhi Johar, an Abyssinian general.

Because the cats were registered as Abyssinians in the import certificates, and because the Meadows had been breeders of Abyssinian, Burmese, and Siamese, some have speculated that the Singapura is a Burmese / Abyssinian cross and it has even been described as such by CFA Judges.

In 1926-27 he participated in the Chicago Field Museum / Daily News Abyssinian ( Ethiopia ) Expedition led by Wilfred Hudson Osgood.

* Abyssinian Birds and Mammals: Painted from life by Louis Agassiz Fuertes ( 1930 ) scanned version

He retired from Bright Hope Baptist Church in 2007 and was succeeded by Kevin R. Johnson, former Assistant Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York.

Adal is mentioned by name for the first time in the 14th century, during the battles between the Muslims of the northern Somali and Afar seaboard and the Abyssinian King Amda Seyon's Christian troops.

From this new capital, Adal organised an effective army led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi that invaded the Abyssinian empire.