Editing Addis Ababa (section)

====Pre-Italian occupation (1916–1935)====
[[File:ETH-BIB-Flugbild von Addis Abeba-Abessinienflug 1934-LBS MH02-22-0214.tif|thumb|left|Addis Ababa in aerial view (1934)]]
[[Gebrehiwot Baykedagn]] took major administrative division post, and Addis Ababa–Djibouti railways in 1916,<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Zewde |first=Bahru |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbVZzRk4XjoC&q=addis+ababa+in+20th+century |title=Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century |date=2002 |publisher=J. Currey |isbn=978-0-85255-452-4 |language=en |access-date=31 May 2022 |archive-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704152314/https://books.google.com/books?id=WbVZzRk4XjoC&q=addis+ababa+in+20th+century |url-status=live }}</ref> which also connects Addis Ababa with French Somaliland port of Djibouti.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw9fwgjr5CkC&pg=PA277 |title=Daily Consular and Trade Reports |date=1927 |publisher=Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Manufactures |language=en |access-date=29 July 2022 |archive-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704145436/https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw9fwgjr5CkC&pg=PA277 |url-status=live }}</ref>  Ras Tafari Mekonnen, later became Emperor [[Haile Selassie I]] was the most powerful figure in the city following his appointment in 1917. He transformed the city by recognizing the importance of modernization and urbanization, and he distributed wealth to support emerging class. From this point, Ras Tafari gained a legitimate power as regency council in 1918.

[[File:ETH-BIB-Strassenszene in Addis Abeba-Abessinienflug 1934-LBS MH02-22-0362.tif|thumb|Marketplace in Addis Ababa (c. February 1934)]]
By 1926 and 1927, a large-scale economic revolution occurred, a surplus of coffee production began growing as a result of [[capital accumulation]]. Profiting from this wealth, the bourgeoisie benefited the city by constructing new, stone-fitted houses with imported European furniture and an importation of the latest automobiles, and expansion of banks across the locales. The total register of automobiles were 76 in 1926 and went to 578 in 1930. The first popular road transportation opened between Addis Ababa and Djibouti, about 97 miles northward in the direction of [[Dessie]]. Initially intended to connect Italian occupied [[Assab]] with Addis Ababa in the [[Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928]], the road was considered for motor vehicle travel. The highway was important to the French railway of Djibouti and freight rate was very high with a lack of [[Competition (economics)|competition]], and increase of cargo between Ethiopia and Assab.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Freidson |first=Irving |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XyqGRX6oBcC&pg=PA24 |title=Motor Roads in Africa: (except Union of South Africa). |date=1930 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en |access-date=29 July 2022 |archive-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704145436/https://books.google.com/books?id=4XyqGRX6oBcC&pg=PA24 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1930, the Emperor was crowned and proceeded with new technologies and building infrastructure. Among them, he installed power lines and telephones, and erected several monuments (such as [[Meyazia 27 Square]]).