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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHOA , the See also:

southern of the three See also:principal provinces of the Abyssinian See also:empire. Shoa from about the See also:middle of the loth See also:century till nearly the See also:close of the 13th century was the See also:residence of the Abyssinian sovereigns, who had been driven out of Mum, their former See also:capital. About 1528 Shoa was conquered by See also:Mahommedan invaders and was for over a century afterwards a See also:prey to Galla raiders. In 1682 it was reconquered by an Abyssinian See also:chief, but remained See also:independent of See also:northern See also:Abyssinia until 1855 when the See also:emperor See also:Theodore reduced it to sub-See also:mission. In 1889 Menelek II., See also:king of Shoa, on the See also:death of the emperor See also:John, made himself See also:master of the whole of Abyssinia. The capital, Adis Ababa (q.v.), is the seat of See also:government for the whole empire (see ABYSSINIA).

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