Ethiopia
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Alternative formsEdit
- Æthiopia (archaic)
EtymologyEdit
From Latin Aethiopia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of disputed origin (see the latter article).
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Ethiopia
- Country in Eastern Africa.
- The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
- Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
- Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
- The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
- 1991, Tesfaye Tesemma, “Improvement of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia” in Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, 288:
- Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production.
- (historical) Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.
- 1553, Richard Eden, A treatyse of the newe India, unnumbered:
- The Diamande is engendred in the mynes of India, Ethiopia, Arabia, Macedonia, and Cyprus, and in the golde mynes of the same countries.
- 1858, George Leighton Ditson, The Para Papers on France, Egypt and Ethiopia, 255:
- To support this, we have the testimony of nearly the most ancient and the most admired of the Greek poets, who represents in his Iliad, Jupiter and the other immortals going to Ethiopia to receive the oblations and feasts which the Ethiopians offer to them every year.
- 1553, Richard Eden, A treatyse of the newe India, unnumbered:
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TranslationsEdit
country in Eastern Africa
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See alsoEdit
- Addis Ababa
- Abyssinia
- Countries of the world
Ethiopia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries) [edit]
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Ethiopia
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Ethiopia f
- Obsolete spelling of Etiópia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).
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Ethiopia
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- (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]