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Portrait of Taytu Betul wearing Habesha Kemis, artist George Prokopiou 1905. Habesha kemis (Amharic: ቀሚስ lit. "Shirt" or "Dress") is the traditional attire of Habesha women. [1] [2] The ankle length dress is usually worn by Ethiopian and Eritrean women at formal events, holidays and invitations, and comes in many regional varieties. It is ...
"The confrontation between Italy and Ethiopia at Adwa was a fundamental turning point in Ethiopian history," writes Henze. [60] On a similar note, the Ethiopian historian Bahru Zewde observed that "few events in the modern period have brought Ethiopia to the attention of the world as has the victory at Adwa".
In Ethiopia, men wear the Ethiopian suit and women wear the habesha kemis. In Somalia, men wear the khamis with a small cap called a koofiyad. The Zuria, is a common traditional dress worn in Eritrea.
This category describes traditional and historic Ethiopian clothing. Modern Ethiopian clothing should be categorised under Ethiopian fashion or Clothing companies of Ethiopia Pages in category "Ethiopian clothing"
Ethiopian coffee dress → Habesha dress – Request made 1 August 2011 and again on 19 June 2012 by user:Gyrofrog using template:movenotice on the article page. Detailed explanation by Gyrofrog on the talk page.-- PBS 16:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC) I propose we move this page to "Ethiopian dress".
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 ...
The culture of Ethiopia is diverse and generally structured along ethnolinguistic lines. The country's Afro-Asiatic-speaking majority adhere to an amalgamation of traditions that were developed independently and through interaction with neighboring and far away civilizations, including other parts of Northeast Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Italy.
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