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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 ...
The women can be identified by wrappers called zani, made with colourful cloth known as atampa or Ankara, (a descendant of early designs from the famous Tie-dye techniques the Hausa have for centuries been known for, named after the Hausa name for Accra the capital of what is now Ghana, and where an old Hausa speaking trading community still ...
Zana (Abkhaz: Зана, romanized: Zana) was a woman who lived in the second half of the 19th century in Abkhazia, South Caucasus.According to legend, she was an Almas ("forest woman") of great proportions entirely covered in hair, captured by hunters in the forests of Abkhazia in the mid-19th century.
Abyssinia (/ æ b ɪ ˈ s ɪ n i ə /; [1] 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. [2]
There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves
This is a list of ethnic groups in Ethiopia that are officially recognized by the government.It is a list taken from the 2007 Ethiopian National Census: [1] [2] Population size and percentage of Ethiopia's total population according to the 1994 and 2007 censuses follows each entry.
Joan Embery and Duane Pillsbury (1929–2020) were married almost 42 years, until his death at age 91. Embery and Pillsbury met when she was 30 and he was 50 through the matchmaking efforts of one of Pillsbury's two daughters, who shared with Embery a mutual interest as competitive female equestrians.
Police are looking for a woman who climbed over a barrier surrounding a tiger enclosure at a zoo in New Jersey, before approaching the big cats and putting a hand through a metal fence, narrowly ...