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Location of the Land of Punt, in the influence of the Egyptians. It has been hypothesized that Punt was a kingdom in the Horn of Africa, based on stable isotope analysis of Egyptian mummified baboons suggesting they originated from an area encompassing modern-day Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia. [18]
Ethiopia is one of the eight fundamental and independent centres of origin for cultivated plants in the world. [185] However, deforestation is a major concern for Ethiopia as studies suggest loss of forest contributes to soil erosion, loss of nutrients in the soil, loss of animal habitats, and reduction in biodiversity.
The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
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]
John Thornton used the term in "A New Map of the World" from 1703. [9] Decades after the terms Ethiopian Ocean or Ethiopian Sea had fallen into disuse to refer to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, botanist William Albert Setchell (1864–1943) used the term for the sea around certain islands close to Antarctica. [10]
Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world [2] and Africa's second-most populous nation. [3] Ethiopia has yielded some of humanity's oldest traces, [4] making the area important in the history of human evolution. Recent studies claim that the vicinity of present-day Addis Ababa was the point from which human beings migrated around the ...
The soil maps of Ethiopia, EuDASM; Ethiopia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. The mapping of Ethiopia Ethiopia-United States Mapping Mission web site; ETHIOPIA TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS Archived 18 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine East View Cartographic web site; Ethiopia's government mapping agency, Ethiopian Mapping Authority web site
In 1941, the British army and the Ethiopian Arbegnoch movement liberated Ethiopia in the East African Campaign, resulted in recognition of Ethiopia's sovereignty by the British under the 1944 Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement, though some regions were briefly administered by the British, no more than 10 years. In 1947, Italy recognized Ethiopia's ...