Discover Ethiopia

About Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 86,000,000 inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populated nation on the African continent. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia is one of the oldest locations of human life known to scientists and is widely considered the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond. Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history. Alongside Rome, Persia, China and India,[13] the Kingdom of Aksum was one of the great world powers of the 3rd century. In the 4th century, it was the first major empire in the world to officially adopt Christianity as a state religion.

History

Ethiopia is a country of wealthy and immense history. In its old history, Ethiopia is the country where the ancient world and African meet. Ethiopia used for many years in its history Red Sea as the most important bridge for trade between the Mediterranean basin and the Far East. The Axumite Dynasty had great significance in this trade intercourse, which resulted in developing its huge economy.

Pre-history reveals Ethiopia is the country where human species beings originated. The North East and the Southern part of the country in the Great Rift Valley areas are the places of most concentrated fossils in the world. The oldest human fossils and stone tools are discovered from these areas. It was here where Lucy walked about 3.2 millions years ago.The American Anthropologist, Dr. Roland Johanson, discovered Lucy in 1974 in Afar. Ethiopian preferred to call her Dinkenesh (means “You are wonderful”). Later on old fossils like Ardipithecus ramidus (4.5 mi. yrs), the earliest child called Selam (3.3 mi.yrs), the oldest fossil, Cherroapticus abyssinica (10mi. yrs old), the earliest Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens idaltu (160,000 yrs old), the oldest stone tool (2.6 mi. yrs) are all discovered from this amazing country.

Generally speaking, all its great achievements are open to tourism. The grand well sculptured and architecturally interesting which are designed to present multi story houses stelaes and inscriptions of Axum, the outcome of Zagwe Dynasty highly sophisticated architecture rock-hewn churches, the splendid buildings (castles) of Gondar, which is proud of as the Camelot of Africa, the walled and the fourth sacred Muslim religion site, Harar, the Tiya stone plantings, the most incredible Sof Umar natural cave are some of its attraction sites.