Ras Makonnen’s early tribute raids legitimized Ethiopia’s eventual claim to the Ogaden

Evidence

The tribute-gathering sorties which Ras Makonnen had sent out from Harar and Jigjiga at the turn of the century, which had created a basis for Ethiopia’s pretensions to sovereignty over the Ogaden, had at last borne fruit. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 354

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the earlier treatment of Ras Makonnen’s turn-of-the-century sorties — tracing long causal chains across decades. — connects to: The Ogaden conflict’s deep roots precede the 1977 war by nearly a century; Ethiopia’s Ogaden claims rest on late 19th-century conquest, not ancient empire — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 806

Related

• Ethiopia’s Ogaden claims rest on late 19th-century conquest, not ancient empire (similarity 0.90)
• The Ogaden conflict’s deep roots precede the 1977 war by nearly a century (similarity 0.87)