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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ityop'iya, Amharic ኢትዮጵያ) is a country situated in an area known as the Horn Of Africa.Africa. It has one of the most extensive known histories as an independent nation in the continent. Uniquely amongst African countries, the Ethiopian monarchy maintained independance during the scramble for africa. The only time that an international force has occupied Ethioia was between 1936-1941 when the Italian army invaded the country, even then much of the country never gave way to the occupying power and groups of rebels (known as Patriots) continued to fight a guerilla war against the Italians. The Italians were ousted in 1941 with the help of the British Army. Ethiopia is a ecologically diverse country with land below sea level and above 10,000, Lake Tana in the north is the source of the Blue Nile. It is also has a large number of endemic species, notably the Gelada Baboon and the Abyssinian Wolf (or Simien Fox). Ehtiopia is home to many different groups of people (the Amahara (from whom the national language Amharic comes), Oromo and Tigrinyan groups being three og the most numerous). Ethiopia is the oldest secular state in the world. Christianity was officially adopted by Emperor Ezana centuries ago; however the eastern lowlands and some regions of the highlands still remain Muslim.
In 1974 a pro-SovietMarxist-Leninist military junta, the Derg, deposed EmperorHaile Selassie, who had ruled since 1930, and established a one-party socialist state. The ensuing regime suffered several bloody coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee problem. It was eventually defeated in 1991 by a coalition of rebel forces under the name Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). In 1994 a constitution was adopted leading to Ethiopia's first multiparty elections in the following year. A border war with Eritrea (a nation which separated from Ethiopia in 1992) erupted in May 1998. This has hurt the nation's economy but since strengthened the ruling coalition.
Abyssinia, extending from the sixth to the fifteenth degree of north latitude, and situated to the south of Nubia, is, by reason of its peculiar contour, unique among the countries of the
On 11 December, 1624, the Church of Abyssinia, abjuring the heresy of Eutyches and the schism of Dioscorus, was reunited to the true
Abyssinia, as if barred from the rest of the world by a wall of iron, was an impenetrable region for the Church, and it was almost a century later that Mgr.
ABYSSINIA (officially Ethiopia), an inland country and empire of N.E. Africa lying, chiefly, between 5° and 15° N. and 35° and 4 2° E. It is bounded N. by Eritrea (Italian).
The absence of large towns in Abyssinia proper is due to the provinces into which the country is divided having been for centuries in a state of almost continual warfare, and to the frequent change of the royal residences on the exhaustion of fuel supplies.
Abyssinia appears to have been originally peopled by the eastern branch of the Hamitic family, which has occupied this region from the remotest times, and still constitutes the great bulk of its inhabitants, though the higher classes are now strongly Semitized.
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