What if Ethiopia was Colonized by a European State?

In OTL, Britain, France, and Italy mouth-watered over the thought of incorporating Ethiopia into their empires. What if one of them would have colonized Ethiopia? I know, Italy failed in OTL, but what if it or the other two would have succeeded?
 
In OTL, Britain, France, and Italy mouth-watered over the thought of incorporating Ethiopia into their empires. What if one of them would have colonized Ethiopia? I know, Italy failed in OTL, but what if it or the other two would have succeeded?

As far as I've read, it seems that Britain actually primarily avoided Ethiopia because they were seen as a Christian nation(dunno about France, though).
 
As far as I've read, it seems that Britain actually primarily avoided Ethiopia because they were seen as a Christian nation(dunno about France, though).

The fact that by Adowa Ethiopia had Russian military advisors and French-made artillery might have been a factor too. At Adowa the Italians thought the Ethiopians had French gunners working for them (they didn't) because they didn't think blacks could work modern guns so well (The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the age of empire, by Raymond Anthony Jonas-don't have access to the book now so I can't say what page)

Ethiopia was isolated, poor, with rugged terrain and by African standards insanely well armed. Britain and France had no reason to grab it other than map painting. Italy only went for because Ethiopia was in between its worthless colonies of Eritrea and Somalia and because there was nothing else.
 
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