Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a country located in Eastern Africa region. Addis Ababa is its capital city. The country has a surface area of 1,104,300 sq km. Its currency is birr.

Ethiopia is a term loosely used in ancient times to indicate the territory inhabited by black or dark-coloured people. However, latterly the term applied to an undefined tract of land stretching south of Egypt to the Gulf of Aden, which constituted the kingdom of the Ethiopians, a people of Semitic origin and speaking a Semitic language called Ge'ez, who were successively conquered by the Egyptians, Persians, and Romans. They are known in the Bible. Their first king is supposed to have been Menilehek, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Their literature consists mostly of translations and collections of saws and riddles. The language Ge'ez is no longer spoken.