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  2. Naming conventions in Eritrea and Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    In modern Ethiopia, a person's legal name includes both the father and the individual's given names, so that the father's given name becomes the child's "last name", there is no actual middle name. In Ethiopia, and traditionally in Eritrea, the naming conventions follow the father's line of descent while certain exemptions can be made in ...

  3. Ethiopian passport - Wikipedia

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    The document is a biometric machine-readable passport with a burgundy cover with the text "Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia" above the coat of arms, and the text "passport" below it in Amharic and English. [1] The passport is valid for 5 years and contains 64 pages.

  4. Given name - Wikipedia

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    A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name [1] that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.

  5. Personal name - Wikipedia

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    In Uganda, the ordering "traditional family name first, Western origin given name second" is also frequently used. [17] When East Asian names are transliterated into the Latin alphabet, some people prefer to convert them to the Western order, while others leave them in the Eastern order but write the family name in capital letters. To avoid ...

  6. Passport - Wikipedia

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    The covers of ordinary passport booklets are burgundy-red (except for Croatia which has a blue cover), with "European Union" written in the national language or languages. Below that are the name of the country, the national coat of arms, the word or words for "passport", and, at the bottom, the symbol for a biometric passport.

  7. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    The convention is to write the first name followed by middle names and surname. It is common to use the father's first name as the middle name or last name even though it is not universal. In some Indian states like Maharashtra, official documents list the family name first, followed by a comma and the given names.

  8. Amharic - Wikipedia

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    Amharic is a pro-drop language: neutral sentences in which no element is emphasized normally omit independent pronouns: ኢትዮጵያዊ ነው ʾityop̣p̣yawi näw 'he's Ethiopian', ጋበዝኳት gabbäzkwat 'I invited her'. The Amharic words that translate he, I, and her do not appear in these sentences as independent words. However, in ...

  9. United States passport - Wikipedia

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    Passport Number; Surname; Given Name; Nationality (United States of America) Date of Birth; Place of Birth (see below) Sex (M, F or X) [42] Date of Issue; Date of Expiration; Authority (United States Department of State) Endorsements; The machine-readable zone is present at the bottom of the page. A signature page has a line for the signature ...