Menelik : Menelik II (1844-1913), emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). He expanded the empire almost to its present borders & also modernised it.
... by the disappearance of Morocco, the confirmed English protectorate over Egypt and the Italian hold on Tripoli. Somaliland was in a preliminary process of slow deglutition; Abyssinia, saved once by Menelik but now torn by internal discord, was the object of a revived dream of Italian colonial empire. The Boer republics had gone under before the advancing tide of imperialistic aggression. All the rest ...
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