Aethiopia

Proper noun

Ethiopia

1. 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.1991, Tesfaye Tesemma, “Improvement of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia” in Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, 288
   1. The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
   2. Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
   3. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
   4. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
2. (historical) Sub-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.1553, Richard Eden, A treatyse of the newe India, unnumbered