Gobana under the authority of Menelik II incorporated several Oromo territories into a centralized Ethiopian state.

Since the federal rearrangement of the Ethiopian state in the 1990s, "the Dubamo increasingly became aware of their non-Hadiya origin and started demanding an administrative district of their own".

Once nominally subordinate to the Coptic Patriarch in Alexandria, Egypt, Ethiopia's Orthodox Church was long intertwined with the Ethiopian state.

For the first time, the Ethiopian state was unambiguously unified.

From 1933, in an effort to undermine the Ethiopian state, Italian agents, well heeled with funds, were dispatched to subvert the local chiefs, as well as to stir up ethnic tensions.

In recent years, many people belonging to this ethnic group have been resettled by the Ethiopian state in order to provide them with clinics and schools.

Ethiopian architecture (including modern-day Eritrea) continued to expand from the Aksumite style, but also incorporating new traditions with the expansion of the Ethiopian state.

The green, gold and red are the colors of the Ethiopian flag and show the loyalty Rastafari feel towards the Ethiopian state in the reign of King Selassie.

The then newly formed front created the TPLF Manifesto in which it asserted its primary mission was to secede from the wider Ethiopian state, and create an independent Tigrai state.

This small province came to form the core of the autonomous Ethiopian state of Shewa.