Ethiopia
nom propreattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˌiːθiˈəʊ.pi.ə//
- États-Unis//ˌi.θiˈoʊ.pi.ə//
- Écosse//ˌi.θeˈo.pe.ə//
A country in East Africa.
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A country in East Africa.
Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production.
The death toll from two landslides in a remote region of southern Ethiopia on Monday has risen to 229, according to local authorities.
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A country in East Africa. The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
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A country in East Africa. Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
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A country in East Africa. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
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A country in East Africa. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
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historiqueSub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.
The Diamande is engendred in the mynes of India, Ethiopia, Arabia, Macedonia, and Cyprus, and in the golde mynes of the same countries.
The Greeks denominated this region of the country, undefined in its limits, Ethiopia or the ‘land of black faces’; the people we call Nubians, are by the Arabs comprehended under the general name of Baraba, and if you enter the bureau of a merchant, or the mansion of a wealthy personage at Cairo or Alexandria, you will be pretty sure to find the atendants to be Berberees.
Étymologie
From Latin Aethiopia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of Proto-Hellenic origin. Displaced native Old English Siġelhearwena land (literally “land of the sun worshippers”).