Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie ( January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...January 3, 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...1810 – March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ...March 19, Events January 1 _ Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City. ...1897), and Arnaud Michel d'Abbadie ( July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ...July 24, 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...1815 – November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ...November 13, Events January 1 _ Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 _ Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 _ The UK has its first meeting. ...1893) were two brothers notable for their travels in This article needs cleanup. ...Abyssinia during the first half of the 19th century.

They were both born in Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ...Dublin, A true colour image of Ireland, captured by a NASA satellite on January 4, 2003. ...Ireland of a France _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...French father and an Irish mother. The family moved to France _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...France in 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...1818, and there the brothers received a careful scientific education.

In 1835 the The Académie française (French Academy) is the pre_eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to The Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in South America, and fifth largest in the world. ...Brazil, the results being published at a later date (1873) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie. The younger Abbadie spent some time in The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, or Algeria, is a nation in north Africa, and the second largest country on the African continent. ...Algeria before, in 1837, the two brothers started for Abyssinia, landing at Massawa in February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...February 1838. They visited various parts of Abyssinia, including the then little_known districts of Ennarea and Kaffa, sometimes together and sometimes separately. They met with many difficulties and many adventures, and became involved in political intrigues, Antoine especially exercising such influence as he possessed in favour of France and the The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...Roman Catholic missionaries. After collecting much valuable information concerning the geography, geology, archaeology and natural history of Abyssinia, the brothers returned to France in 1848 and began to prepare their materials for publication. The younger brother, Arnaud, paid another visit to Abyssinia in 1853.

The more distinguished brother, Antoine, became involved in various controversies relating both to his geographical results and his political intrigues. He was especially attacked by C. T. Beke, who impugned his veracity, especially with reference to the journey to Kana [Kaffa?]. But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention__hotly contested by Beke__that the The Blue Nile is a river rising from Ethiopia. ...Blue Nile was the main stream. The topographical results of his explorations were published in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...Paris in 1860_1873 in Geodesie d'Ethiopie, full of the most valuable information and illustrated by ten maps. Of the Geographie de l'Ethiopie (Paris, 1890) only one volume has been published. In Un Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits ethiopiens (Paris, 1859) is a description of 234 Ethiopian manuscripts collected by Antoine. He also compiled various vocabularies, including a Dictionnaire de la langue amarinna (Paris, 1881), and prepared an edition of the Shepherd of Hermas, with the Latin version, in 1860. He published numerous papers dealing with the geography of Abyssinia, Ethiopian coins and ancient inscriptions. Under the title of Reconnaissances magnetiques he published in 1890 an account of the magnetic observations made by him in the course of several journeys to the (Red Sea is also the name of a state in Sudan) Conshelf II in the Red Sea (Sudan) The Red Sea (Arabic البحر الأحمر Baḥr al_Aḥmar, al_Baḥru l_’Aḥmar; Hebrew ים סוף Yam Suf) is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. ...Red Sea and the Levant. The general account of the travels of the two brothers was published by Arnaud in 1868 under the title of Douze ans dans la Haute Ethiopie.

Both brothers received the grand medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1850. Antoine was a knight of the French Legion of Honor The Légion dhonneur (Legion of Honor ( AmE) or Legion of Honour ( ComE)) is an Order of Chivalry awarded by the President of France. ...Legion of Honour and a member of the The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean_Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. ...French Academy of Sciences. He died in Events January 1 _ Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City. ...1897, and bequeathed an estate in the For other meanings see: Pyrenees, Victoria and Montes Pyrenaeus. ...Pyrenees, yielding 40,000 francs a year, to the Academy of Sciences, on condition of its producing within fifty years a catalogue of half_a_million stars. His brother Arnaud died in Events January 1 _ Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 _ Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 _ The UK has its first meeting. ...1893.