History of Ethiopian Architecture

origin of the name Ethiopia

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Thecomplexgenealogical
treerelatesalloftheworld's
nationstoeachotherthrough
acommonancestor—Noah.

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•inbothGe’ezandthe
modernEthiopianSemitic
languages(Amharicand
Tigrinya),thecountryhaslong
beencalledĪtyōṗṗyā.
•Ītyōṗṗyā isgenerally
thoughttobederivedfromthe
Greek“Ethiopia. ”
•Butinanothersource,the
“BookofAksum, aGe’ez
chroniclefirstcomposedinthe
15thcentury, statesthatthe
name isderivedfrom
‘Ityopp’is,’asonofCush,
sonofHamwhoaccordingto
legendfoundedthecityof
Axum. ”
ĪTYŌṗṗYĀ.

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AETHIOPIANS
AncientAethiopia(Greek:
ΑἰθιοπίαAithiopia)first
appearsasageographical
terminclassicaldocuments
in
referencetotheupperNile
region,aswellasallcertain
areassouthoftheSahara
desertandsouthofthe
AtlanticOcean.
Itsearliestmentionisinthe
worksofHomer.
•The Greek historian
Herodotusspecificallyuses
theappellationtoreferto
suchpartsofAfricaaswere
thenknownwithinthe
inhabitableworld.
•(Aithiops),meaning"burnt-face",was
usedasavaguetermfordark-skinned
populationssincethetimeofHomer.

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AETHIOPIANS
•TheancientGreeksused
“Libya”asthecontinental
placenamefortheafrican
landmass.
•Theycalledpeoplesliving
furthertothesouth
“Ethiopians” (or
Aethiopians),justasthey
calledthelandsbelowthe
Sahara“Ethiopia,”including
theupperNileValleysouthof
Aswan.
•The ancient Greeks also used “Ethiopia”
to signal otherunknown or quasi-mythical
lands located to the south or east of the
Mediterranean.
•As a result, even parts of India came to be
regarded as “Ethiopia” in some accounts.
“Ethiopia” often
functionedasasynonym
fortheNubiankingdom
ofKush(orMeroë).

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AETHIOPIANS-Greek and medieval literature
Severalnotablepersonalities
inGreekandmedieval
literaturewereidentifiedas
Aethiopian, includingseveral
rulers,maleandfemale:
Memnon andhisbrother
Emathion, KingofArabia.
CepheusandCassiopeia,
parentsofAndromeda,were
namedaskingandqueenof
Aethiopia.
•other ancient Greek
commentatorsbelievedthat
the"AethiopianOlympus"
waswherethegodslived
whentheywerenotin
Greece.

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ETHIOPIA
•Intheearlymodernperiod,European
geographersgenerallylocatedEthiopiainthe
unknown(tothem)Africaninterior.
•Incertaincircumstances,however,they
appliedthenametosub-Saharan Africaasa
whole.
•Asaresult,theeasternSouthAtlanticwas
commonlydubbedthe“EthiopianOcean”(or
Sea)throughthe1700s .
•InEuropeanusage,“Ethiopia”didnotrefer
tothemoderncountryofthatnameuntilthe
secondhalfofthetwentiethcentury.
•Previously, theEthiopiankingdom(or
empire)wasgenerallycalled“Abyssinia,”a
termderivedfromtheArabicethnicdesignation
“Habesh.”

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AethiopianSea
AethiopianSea,ÆthiopianOcean[1]or
OceanusÆthiopicus;Arabic: ﺭﺣﺑﻟﺍ ﻲﺑﻭﻳﺛﻷﺍ (
wasthenamegiventothesouthern
partoftheAtlanticOceaninclassical
geographicalworks.Thenameappearedin
mapsfromancienttimestotheturnofthe
19thcentury.
ThenameAethiopian
Seatorefertothe
oceanwasrelatedto
referringtolarge
swathes ofthe
continentofAfrica
asAethiopia.
Nowadays the
classicaluseofthe
termhasbecome
obsolete,asthe
modernnationof
Ethiopiaislocatedin
the northeastern
areaofAfricaandnot
neartheactual
EthiopicOcean.

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AethiopianSea
Bythe17th century
JohnSellerdividedthe
AtlanticOceanintwo
partsbymeansofthe
equator.Henamedthe
northernportionofthe
Atlantic"MardelNort"
andthesouthernpart
"OceanusÆthiopicus"
inhisAtlasMaritimus
publishedin1672.
EdwardWrightdidnot
labeltheNorthAtlanticat
allbutcalledtheportion
southoftheequatorthe
"AethiopianSea"ina
mapthatwaspublished
posthumouslyin1683.

10. THEMIGRATIONOF PLACENAMES: AFRICA, LIBYA, ETHIOPIA
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•Thehistoricaldisplacementofplacenamesisespecially
prominentinAfrica.
•“Africa” itselfis a prime example. “Afri”
wasoriginallyaLatintermforeithertheCarthaginians,a
peopleofPhoeniciandescent,oragroupoftheirBerber
neighbors;
•AccordingtoDr.YosefBenJochannen,africausedtobecalled
Alkebu-lan.
•Andlateronitwasrenamedtoafricaafterpartofthecontinent
wasconqueredbyaromangeneralscipioafricanus.

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•InthelateclassicalEuropeanimagination, thearea
called“Africa”graduallyexpanded.
•Bymedievaltimes,thewordhadcometodenoteone
ofthethreemajordivisionsoftheworld,alongside
EuropeandAsia.
•underRomanrule,the
provinceofAfrica
encompassed modern
Tunisiaandpartof
northwesternLibya.
•AftertheMuslim
conquest,thesame
areacametobecalled
IfriqiyainArabic.