Monarchies of Ethiopia

• Dʿmt Kingdom (8th century BC – 7th/5th century BC)
• Kingdom of Aksum – used title Nəguśä nägäśt ("King of Kings") like later Emperors, but traditionally called a Kingdom (Early period 5th/4th century BC – 1st century BC; Main period 1st century BC/AD – 7th century; Late Aksumite period 7th century – 9th/10th/11th/12th? century)

• Transition from Aksumite period to Zagwe dynasty somewhere between 9th–12th centuries.
• Transition from Zagwe dynasty to Solomonic dynasty in 1270.

• Emirate of Harar
• Kingdom of Garo or Bosha - foundation 1567
  • title: Tatu
  • dynasty: Tegra`i Bushasho dynasty

See: Rulers of Bosha

• Kingdom of Gera
  • title: Moti

See: Rulers of the Gibe State of Gera

• Kingdom of Gomma - foundation 1800
  • title Moti
  • dynasty: 'Awulyani dynasty

See: Rulers of the Gibe State of Goma

• Kingdom of Gumma
  • title Moti

See: Rulers of the Gibe State of Guma

• Kingdom of Janjero - founded before 1600

See: Rulers of the Janjero state of Gimirra

• Kingdom of Jimma
  • title Moti

See: Rulers of the Gibe state of Jimma

• Kingdom of Kaffa - foundation 1390 old Kaffa Kingdom; 1700 for new Kaffa Empire
  • title: Emperor (or Kafi Atio, last two also Atiojo)
  • dynasty: Bushasho dynasty, one of the Minjo families
  • rulers:
    • c.1390 Minjo
    • 1425 - 1460 Shongetato (also known as the Girra king)
    • 1460 - 1495 Odhe/Addiotato
    • 1495 - 1530 Sadi or Shaddi/Shaditato
    • 1530 - 1565 Madi Gafine/Gafo or Shonge, possibly the same as Borrete
    • 1565 - 1605 Bong-he or Borrete or Bongatato, said to be the son of Madi Gafo
    • 1605 - 1640 Giba Nekiok or Bonge or Galo Nechocho
    • 1640 - 1675 Gali Gafocho or Gali Ginok
    • 1675 - 1710 Gali Ginocho or Tan Ginok
    • 1710 - 1742 Gaki Gaocho or Otti Sheroch, Taki Gaok
    • 1742 - 1775 Gali Gaocho or Kanechoch, Galli
    • 1775 - 1795 Shagi Sherocho or Gali Keffoch, Sagi Saro
    • 1795 - 1798 Beshi Ginocho or Kaye Sheroch, Beshi Gino
    • 1798 - 1821 Hoti Gaocho or Beshi Sheroch, Oto
    • 1821 - 1845 Gaha Nechocho or Gali Sheroch, Ganecho
    • 1845 - 1854 Gawi Nechocho or Haji Ginoch, Gaul Saro
    • 1854 - November 1870 Kaye Sherocho or Kamo
    • November 1870 - April 1890 Gali Sherocho
    • 6 April 1890 - 10 September 1897 Gaki Sherocho

Source: C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954), p. lvi. Amnon Orent, "Refocusing on the History of Kafa prior to 1897: A Discussion of Political Processes" in African Historical Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2. (1970), p. 268.

• Leqa Naqamte - foundation before 1871, ruled Welega from Nekemte
  • title: Moti
  • rulers:
    • (until mid-1870s) Bakare
    • (mid-1870s)-1889 Moroda
    • 1889-1932 Kumsa Moroda (later known as Gebre Iziabiher)
• Limmu-Ennarea
  • ruling title: Supera

See: Rulers of the Gibe State of Limu-'Enarya; Innarya

• Welayta - foundation 1250 (not under Tigray dynasty until 1600)
  • ruling title: Kawa
  • ruling dynasty: Tigray dynasty

See: Rulers of Welayta

Kingdom of Zion (consisting of Tigray, Gondar, Gojjam, and Semien) under King (Negus) Mikael of Wollo 1914 - 1916

The following polities are unidentified kingdoms or chiefdoms, and are not mentioned in standard references:

• Leqa Qellam: foundation before 1870
  • title Moti
  • rulers:
    • x-188? Jote Talu
• Sheka - foundation 1560
  • title: Tato
  • rulers
    • 1670-1740 Bedi Goechi
    • 1740-1780 Giba Goechi
    • 1780-1782 Tuge Nechochi
    • 1782-1785 Tume Afochi
    • 1785-1800 Shagi Nechochi
    • 1800-1805 Bedi Nechochi
    • 1805-1810 Techi Nechochi
    • 1810-1820 unknown
    • 1820-1850 Galli Goechi
    • 1850-1887 Deji Goechi
    • 1887-1898 Techi Goechi

• Solomonic Dynasty
• Rulers of Shewa
• Yejju Oromo
• Zagwe dynasty
• Kingdom of Semien
• Mudaito dynasty