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Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya ...
Medri Bahri (Tigrinya: ምድሪ ባሕሪ, English: Land of the Sea) or Mereb Melash (Tigrinya: መረብ ምላሽ, English: Beyond the Mereb), also known as Ma'ikele Bahr or Bahr Melash was a semi-autonomous province of the Ethiopian Empire located north of the Mareb River, in the Eritrean highlands (Kebassa) and some surrounding areas.
After World War II and Italy's defeat, Britain occupied Eritrea. Eritrea was then federated with Ethiopia in 1952 by the ratification of UN General Assembly Resolution 390, which ignored the independence desires of the Eritrean people. In the late 1950s, Eritreans began organising an armed rebellion from their base in Cairo.
Eritreans are the native inhabitants of Eritrea, as well as the global diaspora of Eritrea. Eritreans constitute several component ethnic groups , some of which are related to ethnic groups that make up the Ethiopian people in neighboring Ethiopia and people groups in other parts of the Horn of Africa .
Last but not least the population estimate is based on the Eritrean and Ethiopian population estimates, which again includes many ethnic groups apart from Habesha. Here is a great source that describes the meaning of Habesha encompassing the Christian highlanders such as Amhara, Tigray and Gurage--AlaskaLava 13:28, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
Argobba • Amhara • Gurage • Tigrayans • Tigrinya • Siltʼe • Zay • other Habesha peoples [3] The Harari people ( Harari : ጌ፞ይ ኡሱኣች , ݘٛىيْ أُسُأَڛْ , Gēy Usuach , "People of the City") are a Semitic -speaking ethnic group which inhabits the Horn of Africa .
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According to Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad, most of the Saho (like the Afar and the Somali) have a primordial view of their own ethnicity, and claim to be descended from Arabian immigrants; this in turn allows for an identification with the family of Muhammad, and for an association of their history with that of the Near East.