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Ethiopia

//ˌiː.θiˈəʊ.pɪ.ə// name

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  1. 1
    A country in East Africa.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A country in East Africa.; The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
  3. 3
    A country in East Africa.; Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
  4. 4
    A country in East Africa.; Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
  5. 5
    A country in East Africa.; The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
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  1. 6
    Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile. historical

    "The Diamande is engendred in the mynes of India, Ethiopia, Arabia, Macedonia, and Cyprus, and in the golde mynes of the same countries."

Etymology

From Latin Aethiopia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of Proto-Hellenic origin. Displaced native Old English Siġelhearwena land (literally “land of the sun worshippers”).

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