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“An ancient name for Ethopia, or the Ethiopian Empire or Kingdom, which historically included the present-day country of Eritrea. It existed from the 1200s to the mid-1970s when Haile Selassie died. Ethiopia controlled Eritrea from the 1950s to the 1990s, which is re-gained independence. Not to be…”
“This comes from the Latin word barbarus meaning foreign. ‘Barbary’ referred to foreign lands (lands not of ones own). And ‘barbarian’ referred to the people who lived there. The northern coast of Africa was named ‘The Barbary Coast’ by English speakers after attacks from pirates based in Tripoli…”
“This is an ancient kingdom thought to exist in the southern Arabia or Eastern Africa. In the Hebrew Bible, Sheba and her queen are mentioned in 1 Kings, Chapter 10: When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the Lord, she came to test Solomon with hard…”
