Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

This promotion was completed when Joseph II consecrated the first Ethiopian-born Archbishop, Abuna Basilios, as head of the Ethiopian Church on 14 January 1951.

But, in late-summer, when torrential rains fall on the Ethiopian plateau, the Atbarah provides 22 % of the Nile's flow.

Despite several attempted invasions across the Red Sea, Kaleb was unable to dislodge Abreha, and acquiesced in the change ; this was the last time Ethiopian armies left Africa until the 20th century when several units participated in the Korean War.

Ethiopian ambition in the Horn was apparent in the expansionist ambition of its monarch when Haile Selassie claimed Italian Somaliland and Eritrea.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

The next clash came at Amba Alagi on 7 December 1895, when Ethiopian soldiers overran the Italian positions dug in on that natural fortress, and forced the Italians to retreat back to Eritrea.

In addition, Eastern Oromos who were converted to Islam ruled over most of Ethiopia together with Afars and Somalis when Horn of African Muslims who were united and led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi conquered a majority of Christian Ethiopian highlands.

In October 1990, the SPLC won $ 12. 5 million in damages against Tom Metzger and his White Aryan Resistance when a Portland, Oregon, jury held the neo-Nazi group liable in the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

In the case of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, the life jackets saved many people but also led to many deaths when passengers inflated their vests prematurely.

Kaleb installed a native Himyarite viceroy, Sumyafa ' Ashwa ', who ruled until 525, when he was deposed by the Aksumite general ( or soldier and former slave ) Abraha with the support of disgruntled Ethiopian soldiers.

The dispute was eventually resolved when Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I invited the two groups to Addis Ababa, where the OAU and its headquarters were subsequently established.

Though shorter than the White Nile, 59 % of the water that reaches Egypt originates from the Blue Nile branch of the great river ; when combined with the Atbara River, which also has its source in the Ethiopian Highlands, the figure rises to 90 % of the water and 96 % of transported sediment.

Military gains made by the monarchist Ethiopian Democratic Union in Begemder were rolled back when that party split just as it was on the verge of capturing the old capital of Gondar.

* After the former Italian colony of Eritrea had been under victor Britain's administration since 5 May 1941, a specific United Nations administration, under Britain, was installed on 19 February 1951, under a UN High Commissioner, Edoardo Anze Matienzo ( Bolivian, b. 1902 ), whose office ceased on 15 September 1952 when it was Federated with Ethiopia under the sovereignty of the Ethiopian emperor.

The dynasty, a bastion of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, came to rule Ethiopia on 10 Nehasé 1262 AD EC ( August 10, AD 1270 ) when Yekuno Amlak overthrew the last ruler of the Zagwe dynasty.

But when better-trained Ethiopian Su-27 pilots gave chase and attacked with short-range R-73 ( AA-11 Archer ) missiles, the results were often deadly to the Eritrean aircraft.

Minelaying occurred during the 1964 and 1977-78 border wars with Ethiopia, when minefields were laid predominantly along the Ethiopian border.

" He also recalls Lij Iyasu's visit to Dire Dawa in 1916, when the ruler walked into a Roman Catholic church in that city ( this an act alone would scandalize the Ethiopian Orthodox establishment ) and commenced to light and smoke a cigarette while Mass was being conducted.

One such occasion was in November 1940, when he accompanied three elders who were returning to Armachiho in northern Ethiopia after waiting in Khartoum for help from the British ; another was not long after this, he travelled to Kenya where he aided in organizing Ethiopian soldiers who had been interned there for years, having fled there not long after the Italian conquest in 1937.

On 26 April, when Badoglio launched his " March of the Iron Will " towards Addis Ababa, he faced no meaningful Ethiopian resistance.

Montgomery predicted in the 1970s ( allegedly with the help of her spirit guides ) that World War III would begin in the mid-1980s when a brush-fire war, started by Ethiopian strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, would spread first to the Middle East, and then Europe.

From 1952 to 1990, when Eritrea entered into a federation with Ethiopia, previously landlocked Ethiopia briefly enjoyed the use of Massawa as the headquarters of the now defunct Ethiopian Navy.

Ethiopian traditions do not all agree as to exactly when the custom started of imprisoning rivals to the throne on a Mountain of the Princes.

In Hungary, when the Soviets installed a communist government, Mátyás Rákosi was appointed General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party, which began one of the harshest dictatorships in Europe under the People's Republic of Hungary.

States often said to exhibit crony capitalism include the People's Republic of China ; India, especially up to the early 1990s when manufacturing was strictly controlled by the government ( the " Licence Raj "); Indonesia ; Argentina ; Brazil ; United Kingdom ; Malaysia ; Israel ; Russia ; the United States ; Tasmania ; and most other ex-Eastern Bloc states.

Costa Rica maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China ( commonly known as " China ") until June 1, 2007, when it opened relations with China.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

The People's Bank of China evolved its role as a central bank starting in about 1979 with the introduction of market reforms, which accelerated in 1989 when the country adopted a generally capitalist approach to its export economy.

Bellamy himself came to actively participate in the political movement which emerged around his book, particularly after 1891 when he founded his own magazine, The New Nation, and began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.

It was also a political group in the European Parliament, until 1992, when it became a subgroup of European People's Party-European Democrats ( EPP-ED ).

* The Maverick Flying Dune Buggy was designed by the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center as an off-road vehicle that could unfurl an advanced parachute and then travel by air over impassable terrain when roadways were no longer usable.

Some foods naturally form a protein gel when cooked such as eels and elvers, and sipunculid worms which are a delicacy in the town of Xi amen in Fuji an province of the People's Republic of China.

Ghana's relations with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) date back to 1960 when President Nkrumah became one of Africa's first leaders to recognize the country.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

Another sharing of resources occurred when Bob Albrecht provided considerable resources for a non-profit organization called People's Computer Company ( PCC ).

With average growth rates of 10 % in the 1960s, 5 % in the 1970s, and 4 % in the 1980s, Japan was able to establish and maintain itself as the world's second largest economy from 1968 until 2010, when it was supplanted by the People's Republic of China.

KANU was the only party 1964-1966 when a faction broke away as the Kenya People's Union ( KPU ).

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

Dogra Rule, under the paramountcy ( or tutelage ) of the British Crown, lasted until 1947, when the former princely state became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China.

The 1957 document was abrogated on December 3, 1975, when a communist People's Republic was proclaimed.

Relations between the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and Liberia have been broken and reestablished several times since February 17, 1977, when diplomatic relations between the PRC and Liberia were first formed.

Hope is renewed when the Judean People's Front come charging towards the Romans, but fail to rescue Brian, as they are a suicide squadron, and kill themselves rather than dying in battle.

This game was banned by the government of People's Republic of China when it took power in 1949.

The last border dispute culminated in 1956, when the People's Liberation Army invaded northern Burma, but were repulsed.

A standing committee known as the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and elected by the Assembly performs legislative functions when the Assembly is not in session.

Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).