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Name: Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia

Type: Polity

Start: 1975 AD

End: 1987 AD

Nation: ethiopia

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This article is about the specific polity Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia, then including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987.

Establishment

  • March 1975: The Derg, officially the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia, was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.

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    1. Ethio-Somali War

    Was a military conflict fought between Somalia and Ethiopia from July 1977 to March 1978 over the Ethiopian region of Ogaden.

    1.1.Somali Invasion of Ogaden

    Somalian invasion of Ethiopian Ogaden during the Ethio-Somali War.

  • July 1977: By the end of the month 60% of the Ogaden had been taken by the SNA-WSLF force, including Gode, on the Shabelle River.
  • August 1977: By 17 August elements of the Somali Army had reached the outskirts of the strategic city of Dire Dawa.
  • October 1977: Battle of Jijiga.
  • October 1977: By September Ethiopia was forced to admit that it controlled only about 10% of the Ogaden and that the Ethiopian defenders had been pushed back into the non-Somali areas of Harerge, Bale, and Sidamo.
  • November 1977: Battle of Harar.

    • 1.2.Ethiopian-Cuban counter-attack

    Was an Ethiopian military counterattack, with Cuban support, against the Somali forces occupying territories in Ogaden.

  • March 1978: The Ethiopian army re-captures of Jijiga after only two days of Somali occupation.
  • March 1978: The last significant Somali unit leaves Ethiopia, marking the end of the Ogaden War.

    • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • February 1987: The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was a communist state that existed in Ethiopia from 1987.

    • Disestablishment

  • February 1987: The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was a communist state that existed in Ethiopia from 1987.

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