“ethiopia” is a greek compound word meaning “burnt face“.
Correspondingly, was all of Africa called Ethiopia?
It was used by the Moors, Nubians, Numidians, Khart-Haddans (Carthagenians), and Ethiopians. Africa, the current misnomer adopted by almost everyone today, was given to this continent by the ancient Greeks and Romans.” … These names include Ortigia, Corphye, Libya, and Ethiopia.
Then, are Greeks from Ethiopia? In Greece we are Ethiopians, and in Ethiopia we are Greeks,” she says with a sigh. Greek sailors and merchants began emigrating to Ethiopia in significant numbers in the late 1800s. It is likely some were refugees of the Greek Genocide, Greek Civil War, and later the military dictatorship.
In respect to this, when was the word Ethiopia first used?
In the 15th-century Ge’ez Book of Axum, the name is ascribed to a legendary individual called Ityopp’is. He was an extra-Biblical son of Cush, son of Ham, said to have founded the city of Axum. In English, and generally outside of Ethiopia, the country was once historically known as Abyssinia.
