Trade was carried out partly by barter and partly with the aid of" primitive money"'and
currency of various kinds. 2 Commerce was traditionally based on two main institutions …

A major network of trade routes, which was destined towards the end of the nineteenth
century to become even more important, was based on the nerve centre of Shoa, and, after …

One of our earliest authorities on the northward trade of the area would seem to be the
explorer Donaldson Smith, who reported in 1 897 that the people of Borana traded with the …

The foreign trade of most of Eastern and Southern Ethiopia was in the main traditionally
carried on through the ports of the Gulf of Aden. The most important of these in the first part …

54 northern part of present day Uganda. This region became a focus of attention in 19** 1
century Europe because of the competition for the discovery of the sources of the Nile and …

This study of Ethiopia's historical geography is based on Greek, Roman, Arabic and later
travellers' accounts, as well as on Ethiopian royal chronicles and other Ethiopian …

export (7). Three years later, in 1906, Italians built the camel caravan route from Bäräntu via
Nuqãrã to Gondar (8). This route served as an alternative route to the already established …

The development of trade in the Red Sea since the second decade of the 19th century
brought about a similar development in the Ethiopian region. A growing volume of Ethiopia's …

The last quarter of the nineteenth century and first decade of the twentieth, a period which
coincided with the reigns of Emperors Yohannes IV and Menilek II, represented an important …

This paper considers several questions in the economic prehistory of Ethiopia. Who
domesticated the banana-like ensete, the food plant which in parts of southern Ethiopia …