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 confused with “Assyria” which was an ancient kingdom which stretched across much of the Middle East and down into the Nile area of Egypt.