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List of presidents of Ethiopia, the Glossary

Index List of presidents of Ethiopia

This is a list of presidents of Ethiopia, and also a list of heads of state after the fall of the Ethiopian Empire in 1974.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 40 relations: Abolition of monarchy, Aman Andom, Amha Selassie, Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia, Death and state funeral of Meles Zenawi, Derg, Emperor of Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles, Ethiopian Empire, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethiopian Revolution, Federal Parliamentary Assembly, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Head of state, Independent politician, List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government, List of emperors of Ethiopia, List of heads of government of Ethiopia, Lists of rulers of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mulatu Teshome, Negasso Gidada, Oromo Democratic Party, People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, President of Ethiopia, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde, Tafari Benti, Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Tigray People's Liberation Front, Transitional Government of Ethiopia, Vice President of Ethiopia, Workers' Party of Ethiopia, 1974 Ethiopian coup d'état, 1987 Ethiopian general election, 2007 Ethiopian presidential election, 2013 Ethiopian presidential election, 2018 Ethiopian presidential election.

  2. Ethiopia politics-related lists
  3. Government of Ethiopia
  4. Presidents of Ethiopia

Abolition of monarchy

The abolition of monarchy is a legislative or revolutionary movement to abolish monarchical elements in government, usually hereditary.

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Aman Andom

Aman Mikael Andom (ኣማን ሚካኤል ዓንዶም; 21 June 1924 – 23 November 1974) was an Eritrean general, and the first post-imperial acting head of state of Ethiopia. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Aman Andom are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Amha Selassie

Amha Selassie (Salute of the Trinity; born Asfaw Wossen Tafari; 27 July 191617 January 1997) was Emperor-in-exile of Ethiopia.

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Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia

The Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia (translit), generally known by its English acronym COPWE, was a political organization in Ethiopia during the rule of the Derg.

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Death and state funeral of Meles Zenawi

Meles Zenawi, who led Ethiopia as Prime Minister since 1995 and the chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) since 1988, died on 20 August 2012 from undisclosed illness.

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Derg

The Derg (or Dergue), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), was the Marxist–Leninist military dictatorship that ruled Ethiopia, then including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when the military leadership or junta formally "civilianized" the administration but stayed in power until 1991. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Derg are government of Ethiopia.

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Emperor of Ethiopia

The emperor of Ethiopia (nəgusä nägäst, "King of Kings"), also known as the Atse (ዐፄ, "emperor"), was the hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire, from at least the 13th century until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles

Until the end of the Ethiopian monarchy in 1974, there were two categories of nobility in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Ethiopian Empire

The Ethiopian Empire, also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or simply known as Ethiopia, was a sovereign state that historically encompasses 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 by the Derg, which dethroned Emperor Haile Selassie.

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Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; translit) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia that existed from 1988 to 2019.

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Ethiopian Revolution

The Ethiopian Revolution (የኢትዮጵያ አብዮት; 12 January – 12 September 1974) was a period of civil, police and military upheaval in Ethiopia to protest against the weakened Haile Selassie government.

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Federal Parliamentary Assembly

The Federal Parliamentary Assembly (Ye-Fēdēralawī Parilama Mikir Bēt) is the federal legislature of Ethiopia. List of presidents of Ethiopia and federal Parliamentary Assembly are government of Ethiopia.

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Girma Wolde-Giorgis

Girma Wolde-Giorgis (28 December 1924 – 15 December 2018) was an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 2001 to 2013. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Girma Wolde-Giorgis are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Head of state

A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government

The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939).

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List of emperors of Ethiopia

This article lists the emperors of Ethiopia, from the founding of the Ethiopian Empire and the Solomonic dynasty in 1270 by Yekuno Amlak, until the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 when the last emperor was deposed.

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List of heads of government of Ethiopia

This is a list of heads of government of Ethiopia since the formation of the post of Chief Minister of the Ethiopian Empire in 1909 (renamed to Prime Minister in 1943). List of presidents of Ethiopia and list of heads of government of Ethiopia are Ethiopia politics-related lists and government of Ethiopia.

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Lists of rulers of Ethiopia

This is a list of rulers and office-holders of Ethiopia.

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Meles Zenawi

Meles Zenawi Asres (Tigringa and), born Legesse Zenawi Asres (9 May 1955 – 20 August 2012) was an Ethiopian politician and a former anti-Derg militant who served as president of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and as prime minister from 1995 until his death in 2012. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Meles Zenawi are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Haile Mariam (መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማርያም, pronunciation:; born 21 May 1937) is an Ethiopian former politician and former military officer who was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Mengistu Haile Mariam are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Mulatu Teshome

Mulatu Teshome Wirtu (Mulaatuu Tashoome Wirtuu;; born 1957) is an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 2013 to 2018. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Mulatu Teshome are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Negasso Gidada

Negasso Gidada Solon (ነጋሶ ጊዳዳ; 8 September 1943 – 27 April 2019) was an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 1995 until 2001. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Negasso Gidada are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Oromo Democratic Party

The Oromo Democratic Party (Paartii Demokraatawaa Oromoo, ODP), formerly called the Oromo People's Democratic Organization, was a political party in Ethiopia, and part of the alliance with the Amhara National Democratic Movement, the South Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Front and the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front that formed the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

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People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was a socialist state that existed in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea from 1987 to 1991. List of presidents of Ethiopia and People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia are government of Ethiopia.

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President of Ethiopia

The president of Ethiopia is the head of state of Ethiopia. List of presidents of Ethiopia and president of Ethiopia are government of Ethiopia and presidents of Ethiopia.

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Prime Minister of Ethiopia

The prime minister of Ethiopia is the head of government and chief executive of Ethiopia. List of presidents of Ethiopia and prime Minister of Ethiopia are government of Ethiopia.

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Sahle-Work Zewde

Sahle-Work Zewde (born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat who has served as president of Ethiopia since 2018, the first woman to hold the office. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Sahle-Work Zewde are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Tafari Benti

Brigadier General Tafari Benti (11 October 1921 – 3 February 1977) was an Ethiopian military officer and politician who served as head of state of Ethiopia from 1974 to 1977 in his role as second chairman of the Derg, the ruling military junta. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Tafari Benti are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Tesfaye Gebre Kidan

Tesfaye Gebre Kidan Geletu (Täsfaye Gäbrä Kidan Gälätu, – 4 June 2004) was an Ethiopian general who was the acting president of Ethiopia for one week in late May 1991. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Tesfaye Gebre Kidan are presidents of Ethiopia.

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Tigray People's Liberation Front

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; lit), also called the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist, paramilitary group, and the former ruling party of Ethiopia.

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Transitional Government of Ethiopia

The Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE) was an era established immediately after the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) seized power from the Marxist-Leninist People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) in 1991. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Transitional Government of Ethiopia are government of Ethiopia.

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Vice President of Ethiopia

Vice president of Ethiopia was a political position in Ethiopia during the era of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. List of presidents of Ethiopia and Vice President of Ethiopia are government of Ethiopia.

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Workers' Party of Ethiopia

The Workers' Party of Ethiopia (Ye'Ityopia Serategnoch Parti, WPE) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991 led by General Secretary Mengistu Haile Mariam.

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1974 Ethiopian coup d'état

On 12 September 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and Territorial Army, a Soviet-backed military junta that consequently ruled Ethiopia as the Derg until 28 May 1991.

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1987 Ethiopian general election

General elections were held in Ethiopia on 14 June 1987 for seats in its Shengo.

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2007 Ethiopian presidential election

Indirect presidential elections were held in Ethiopia on October 9, 2007, in which the Ethiopian Parliament re-elected Girma Woldegiorgis for a second six-year term.

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2013 Ethiopian presidential election

The presidential election held on 7 October 2013, was the fourth presidential election of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to elect the country's third president.

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2018 Ethiopian presidential election

A snap presidential election was held in Ethiopia on 25 October 2018, prompted by the resignation of incumbent Mulatu Teshome.

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See also

Government of Ethiopia

Presidents of Ethiopia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Ethiopia

Also known as Ethiopian presidents.