State · 1987 – 1991
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
A state of 1987 – 1991 — 4 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 4 years
- 1987 – 1991
- Rulers
- 1
- the head of state
- Most ground
- 1.26 million km²
- in 1987
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
1 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
1.26 million km² in 1987, 1.26 million km² in 1991. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedEmblem of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Ethiopia_(1987%E2%80%931991).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of Ethiopia (1987–1991) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · TRAJAN 117 This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape .
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19992 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Mengistu Haile Mariam · ruler · 1937 – present
- Operation Solomon · battle · 1991
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood4 years
stood longer than 12% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,259,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 87% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1977 – 2001, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1987, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q940821 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.