I think ancient Egyptians were pretty much aware of the difference between Nubia approx. As with the somewhat vague term "Abyssinian", to ancient Egyptians "Ethiopian" meant probably nothing more than a black person which they knew were living to the south of Egypt proper. Historically both terms have eventually become associated with present day Ethiopia rather than with a specific people and Ethiopia itself is comprised of several different people, who are only considered Ethiopians, because they live in the country known as Ethiopia.
Compare the term America, which can either mean the continent or the US, depending on usage, such as Americans can mean either people living in the Americas or US citizens.
Agent , Dec 31, Joined: Jul 18, Messages: 25, Location: Freedonia. Cheezy the Wiz , Dec 31, In older English texts, an 'ethiop' is any dark-skinned African; 'Aetheopia' was the Roman name for most of what we would call Africa, which to them meant Tunisia.
Flying Pig , Jan 1, Joined: Jan 7, Messages: 5, Joined: Dec 4, Messages: 13, The the region of the country that is now Ethiopia was known in the Mediterranean during antiquity by a name coming from a greek tradition, aethiops , apparently meaning the country of the blackened faces, which applied originally to the kingdom of Kush. In medieval Europe the term ethiopian could mean an east african, arab or even indian, according to the european medieval division of the world in three parts.
In the 15th century some maps used the name Ethiopia for the whole of Africa west of the Nile and south of the Senegal rivers, and Abissinia for the african lands east of the Nile and by the Red Sea: the concept of the Nile as a continental divide had not yet faded.
Those in Ethiopia who still followed a greek tradition imported from the north also used the term Ityopya. If we are to believe the european missionaries who went there by the 16th century the nobility called themselves "amharas", but there was no common name in use for the whole population of the ethiopian kingdom except for the arab name of "Habex" or "Abassia" which became how?
Well there was no "United Ethiopia". There was the main Solomonid Habesha kingdom that dominated nearby areas and constantly contested power with Muslim states in the region, as well as many petty kingdoms to the south and west of the Solomonid Empire. Even the main Solomonid Kingdom was a mish-mash of many ethnic groups. The concept of a unified "Ethiopian" state was likely alien to the various ethnic groups and petty kingdoms in the area.
I'd be surprised if they did have a word for one. TheLastOne36 , Jan 1, Agent , Jan 2, Joined: Sep 2, Messages: 15, Antilogic , Jan 7, Today we make no pretence of seeking to recover our seaward frontier by force; but we hope that the Christian powers, guided by our lord Jesus Christ, may yield us our frontiers on the sea, or that at least they may give us some points on the coast.
Abyssinians assert that Menelik is a unifier, though he is short of the dream territories mentioned in him letter. The boundaries created as a result of Abyssinian military victories were no less arbitrary divisive than those created by competing European colonial powers in the rest of Africa; in the west, Anuak, Nuer, Berta and Komo were split between Ethiopia and present day Sudan; in the south, Oromo were split between Ethiopia and present day Kenya; in the east and southeast, Somali were split between Ethiopia, Kenya and present day Somalia and Djibouti; and in the northeast, Afars were split between Ethiopia and present day Djibouti; A number of other smaller groups were divided in the north, west and south.
Also in the north Abyssinia itself were to be divided between present day Ethiopia and Eritrea. It should be noted that Abyssinian kings rule over Ethiopia but without either acceptance or recognition by non-Abyssinians. One of the most interesting but confusing tactics Abyssinian devised to obfuscate the atrocities committed while at the same time getting legitimacy over the newly confiscated country and people was fabricating history, presenting their myths as history, using diplomatic verbiage and changing their name of Semitic Abyssinia to Cushitic Ethiopia.
The most important myths Abyssinians used as ideological weapon to subjugate the overwhelmingly majority non-Abyssinians and confuse local as well as foreign historians are the following:. Accordingly, the superficially convincing and yet more confusing name they wanted to adopt was the historical Christian Cushitic Nubian Ethiopia- present day Sudan- located from 1 st cataract-South of Aswan to 6 th cataract-Khartoum along side the Blue Nile River.
Dubious enough, this name changes was harmonized with the corrupt Abyssinian version of Christianity. For e. Based on the objective and tactics mentioned, subsequent Abyssinian governments, in collaboration with the highly politicized Abyssinian church, pushed to change the Abyssinia name to Biblical Ethiopia. It should be noted that the Hebrew bible call Nubian as Cush while the Greece bible refers Nubians as ethiope. After initially imposing Abyssinia name on non-Abyssinians, special diplomatic effort was made by Teferi Mekonen- later Emperor H.
Most importantly, the following all inclusive Memorandum of Department of State regarding the official name of Ethiopia explains the whole situation of the historical genocide committed. Ethiopia is the name which is preferred by the Government and people of the country. Skinner, in his Paris dispatch No. The government of the country considers Ethiopia to be its proper name. And it is under this name that our treaty appears in the official volume of Treaties, Conventions and International Acts.
And in the body of the treaty Ethiopia alone is mentioned from time to time. I believe that it would be gratifying to the existing government of Ethiopia if the use of the word Abyssinia could be dropped. The suggestion that the name Ethiopia be adopted for official use by the Government was approved by Mr.
The name of the country in the language of the country, Amharic, is, translated Ityopya. Admittedly the term Abyssinia is much more widely used.
The Italian abandoned both names during their five years occupation, let alone accepting the name change to Ethiopia instead of Abyssinia. They simply called it Italian East Africa. Evidences and facts show that, by any means of imagination, the biblical name Cushitic Ethiopia has no relation with Semitic state of Abyssinia except being neighbors. Strictly speaking, Ethiopia belongs to the direct geographical descendent of ancient country Nubians or the Sudan both historically and Biblically, but not to Abyssinia or even the present day Ethiopia.
The fact that the Sudan preferred the Arabic name Al-Sudan over Ethiopia, means the black people, for what ever reasons, resulted in the confusion of the two countries people with their history. This link provides additional clear picture regarding the cause and effect of the confusion. The arguments presented here and other facts lead one to the following clear understanding regarding the confusion over the names of Abyssinia and Ethiopia:.
To sum it up, it is becoming clearer from time to time that the century old tactics of obfuscating the names Abyssinia and Ethiopia is not working. The days of superficially mentioning non-Abyssinians in the introductory pages of everything and systematically excluding them from the main body of history should come to an end without any negotiation or precondition. In other words, the old political tactic of promoting only Abyssinia under the disguise of bogus Ethiopia is no longer tolerable.
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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Just to put it simply,as other incorporated regions, Menelik and Ras Gobena of oromo incorporated Arsi like other regions.
Why you failed to mention the genocide of sidama,gedeo and other southern nations during oromo expansion, the role of oromo war lords during gondarine period and rise of menelik. Victim mentality card seems a new way of distorting facts.
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