By 1896, the Empire incorporated other regions such as Hararghe, Gurage and Wolayita, and saw its largest expansion with the federation of Eritrea in 1952.
The Ethiopian Empire ( Ge'ez: መንግሥተ ኢትዮጵያ, romanized: Mängəśtä ʾItyop̣p̣ya, lit.'Kingdom of Ethiopia'), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia ( / ˌ iː θ i ˈ oʊ p i ə/ Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā, listen ⓘ, Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: Itiyoophiyaa), was an empire that historically spanned the geographical area of present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak approximately in 1270 until the 1974 coup d'etat of Emperor Haile Selassie by the Derg.
