A region in central Ethiopia - the province within which the modern capital of Addis Ababa sits, in fact. A province governed by members of the Imperial dynasty in the time when the capital of Ethiopia was located at Gondar, in the north, Shewa became a semi-autonomous Kingdom in the 19th century. The Kingdom was mediatized in 1850's when the capital was transferred to Addis Ababa, but still retained a degree of separation until the end of the chronic internal conflicts within Ethiopia settled in the 1890's.