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Hello! This is my first attempt at writing a TL centered around the Ethiopian Empire which I am interested in writing more timelines about in the future . . . if I have the time. I welcome constructive criticism from those who have written a TL and have more experience than I do.

Let me provide some information about Le'ul Ras Imru Haile Selassie.

Ras Imru was a cousin of Emperor Haile Selassie I and one of the commanders on the northern front in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36, fighting until December of 1936 where he surrendered to the Italians at Gojeb River. He was sent to Ponza in Italy where he would imprisoned by the Italians until 1943 as Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers in their invasion of the Italian peninsula. Ras Imru was an advocate for land reform, becoming more and more leftist to the point where he would have been thought of as a socialist by western European standards. Imru even distributed some of his extensive land base among his followers! His son, Lij Mikael Imru also become an advocate for land reform and became acting Prime Minister during the 1974 coup (for a short time) as his father died in 1980, the only member of the Royal Family to be given a state funeral by the Derg.
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