* Ethiopian calendar

The Ethiopian Orthodox New Year, called Enkutatash, falls on the same date as Neyrouz ; the Ethiopian calendar year 1999 thus began on 11 September 2006.

* Meskel ( Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar )

It is usually the first day of the year in the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar ( in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099 ).

Its years and months coincide with those of the Ethiopian calendar but have different numbers and names.

* Ethiopian calendar

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria celebrates the feast day of Saint Basil on the 6th of Tobi ( 6th of Terr on the Ethiopian calendar of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ).

The Ethiopian calendar is based on this reformed calendar but uses Amharic names for its months and uses a different era.

In 1944 ( EE1936 in the Ethiopian calendar ), coins were reintroduced, with copper 1, 5, 10 and 25 santim and silver 50 santim.

The church is a significant center of pilgrimage for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, especially during the main Festival of Zion Maryam on 30 November ( 21 Hidar on the Ethiopian calendar ).

In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the feast is known as Timkat and is celebrated on the day that the Gregorian calendar calls 19 January, but on 20 January in years when Enkutatash in the Ethiopian calendar falls on Gregorian 12 September ( i. e. when the following February in the Gregorian calendar will have 29 days ).

In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the feast is known as Timkat and is celebrated on the day that the Gregorian calendar calls 19 January, but on 20 January in years when Enkutatash in the Ethiopian calendar falls on Gregorian 12 September ( i. e. when the following February in the Gregorian calendar will have 29 days ).

The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.

The quotation is believed by most modern scholars to be taken from 1 Enoch 1: 9 which exists in Greek, in Ethiopic, as part of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, and also in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The similarly pronounced " Negus ", a loanword from Ethiopic languages, was up until a few decades ago the appellation of the Ethiopian head of state for several centuries / millennia.

One group, which includes the British scholar Edward Ullendorff, holds that it is a corruption of " Candace ", the Ethiopian queen mentioned in the New Testament Acts ; the other group connects the name Makeda with the Ethiopic version of the Alexander romance, which, like other translations, holds that ' Iskinder ' ( Alexander the Great ) of Macedonia ( Ethiopic Meqédon ) met with Queen Candace ( Kandake ) of Nubia ( c. 332 BC ) and that she dissuaded him from invading her realm.

Tigre ( Ge ' ez ትግረ tigre or ትግሬ tigrē ; sometimes written as Tigré, also known as Xasa in Sudan ; Arabic الخاصية ) is a Semitic language, which, along with Tigrinya, is believed to be one of the direct descendants of the ancient Ge ' ez language ( Ethiopic ), a language which is still in use as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Ethiopian Semitic ( also known as Ethiopian, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic, or Afro-Semitic ) is a language group, which together with Old South Arabian forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages.

** Ge ' ez ( Ethiopic ) – extinct, liturgical use in Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches and by the Beta Israel.

According to the beliefs of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Ethiopic or Geez is one of the ancient alphabets and languages.

In the Ethiopian Orthodox view, the Book of Enoch ( መጽሓፈ ሄኖክ ) was written in Ethiopic by Enoch, considered the oldest book in any human language.

The Trisagion also has a similar place in the liturgies of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church, as well as the Coptic Catholic Church and Ethiopic Catholic Church.

The modern and historic presence of South Semitic Ethiopian languages ( and Ethiopic script ) in Africa is believed by some to be due to a migration of South Arabian speakers from Yemen within the last few thousand years.

** Ethiopic ( Ethio-Semitic, Ethiopian Semitic )

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

The third division of the higher region of Africa is formed by the Ethiopian Highlands, a rugged mass of mountains forming the largest continuous area of its altitude in the whole continent, little of its surface falling below, while the summits reach heights of 4600 m to 4900 m ( 15, 000 to 16, 000 ft ).

In Un Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits ethiopiens ( Paris, 1859 ) is a description of 234 Ethiopian manuscripts collected by Antoine.

The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.

The eastern Somali region ( Ogaden ) hosts a large nomadic Somali population and is a conflict area where Ethiopian regular forces are fighting against Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF ).

This is however a misnomer, since both the Ethiopian and the Eritrean Churches, although daughter churches of the Church of Alexandria, are currently autocephalous churches.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church do acknowledge the Honorary Supremacy of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, since the Church of Alexandria is technically their Mother Church.

The term is used as a matter of convenience by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and other Churches to refer to books of their Old Testament which are not part of the Masoretic Text.

In the Amharic Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ( an Oriental Orthodox Church ), those books of the Old Testament that are still counted as canonical, but not by all other Churches, are often set in a separate section titled " Deeyutrokanoneekal " ( ዲዩትሮካኖኒካል ), which is the same word.

Even whom should be considered the earliest known king is contested: although C. Conti Rossini proposed that Zoskales of Axum, mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, should be identified with one Za Haqle mentioned in the Ethiopian King Lists ( a view embraced by later historians of Ethiopia such as Yuri M. Kobishchanov and Sergew Hable Sellasie ), G. W. B.

An early Muslim tradition is that the Negus Ashama ibn Abjar offered asylum to a group of Muslims fleeing persecution during Muhammad's life ( 615 ), but Stuart Munro-Hay believes that Axum had been abandoned as the capital by then – although Kobishchanov states that Ethiopian raiders plagued the Red Sea, preying on Arabian ports at least as late as 702.

Most of Eritrea's coast is part of the Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands semi-desert ecoregion.

The following is a list of most of the ethnic groups of Ethiopia, taken from the 2007 Ethiopian National Census: ( Population size and percentage of Ethiopia's total population follows each entry.

However, the government-owned airline, Ethiopian Airlines, is excellent.

Telecommunications in Ethiopia is currently a monopoly in the control of Ethio Telecom, formerly the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation ( ETC ); all telephone service and internet access requires Ethio Telecom to be involved.

Over a third of the funding for asphalt and gravel roads is being covered by the Ethiopian Government which is a considerable shift in recent years financial scheme.

But the Ethiopian Roads Authority and China Communications Construction Consultancy is going to build a new six-lane expressway between Addis Ababa and Adama.

* The Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti is Shemesedine Ahmed Roblah

* The Ethiopian ambassador to Kenya is Murad Mussa.

The Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan is Dr Kadafo Mohamed Hanfare.