Abyssinia
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Abyssinia (; also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. The term was widely used as an official international synonym for Ethiopia until the mid-20th century and primarily designates the Ethio-Semitic speaking inhabitants of the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Abyssinia
- Settlement.native_name
- ሐበሠተ (Ge'ez)الحبشة (Arabic)
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- gez
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Historical region
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- Map of Abissinia (1887) (cropped).jpg
- Settlement.map_caption
- 1887 Italian map of Abyssinia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
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- Demonym
- Abyssinian
- Image
- Map of Abissinia (1887) (cropped).jpg
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Abyssinia (; also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. The term was widely used as an official international synonym for Ethiopia until the mid-20th century and primarily designates the Ethio-Semitic speaking inhabitants of the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
==Philology== The origin of the term might be found in Egyptian hieroglyphic as the designation of a southern region near the Red Sea that produced incense, known as ḫbś.tj.w, "the bearded ones" (i.e Punt). This etymological connection was first pointed out by Wilhelm Max Müller and Eduard Glaser in 1893.
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