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  2. Habesha peoples - Wikipedia

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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 historically been applied to Semitic-speaking, predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples native to the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya peoples ...

  3. Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Migration to Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    The migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by ...

  5. Ethiopian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Ethiopian Empire, [a] historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, [b] was a sovereign state [16] that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak around 1270 until the 1974 coup d'état by the Derg , which ended the reign of the final ...

  6. History of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Abyssinia or rather "Ze Etiyopia" was ruled by the Semitic Abyssinians (Habesha) composed mainly of the Amhara, Tigrayans and the Cushitic Agaw. In the Eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands and more so the lowlands were the home of the Harari /Harla that founded Sultanates such as Ifat and Adal and the Afars .

  7. Abyssinian - Wikipedia

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    Abyssinian Meeting House, a historic church in Portland, Maine, USA; Abyssinian black-and-white colobus, another name for the mantled guereza, a black-and-white colobus monkey

  8. 32 fun facts about Abyssinian cats - AOL

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    As Abyssinia is the former name for the Ethiopian Empire, you would assume this breed’s origins lie in what is now Ethiopia, however it’s not so simple. ... People 'RHOBH' star Dorit Kemsley ...

  9. Second migration to Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    Abu Hatib ibn Amr ibn Abdshams from the Amir ibn Luayy clan. It is said that he was the first to arrive in Abyssinia. Suhayl ibn Bayda (Suhayl ibn Wahb) from the Al-Harith ibn Fihr clan. Ibn Ishaq reports a dispute over this list: people believed either Abu Sabra or Abu Hatib was involved in this emigration, but not both of them. [5]: 146