12) Jima. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Jima, see Jimma, Ethiopia....

13) Ethiopic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ethiopic, (etheop´ik) (KEY) , extinct language of Ethiopia belonging to the North Ethiopic group of the Ethiopian Semitic languages, which, in turn, belong to the...

14) Falashas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Falashas, (fala´shs) (KEY) [Amharic,=exiles], Jews of Ethiopia who refer to themselves as Beta Israel (House of Israel). Long isolated from mainstream Judaism, they...

15) Awash. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Awash, (a´wash) (KEY) , river, E Ethiopia, rising near Addis Ababa and flowing c.500 mi (800 km) to a swampy lake near the Djibouti border. The Awash Valley is important...

16) Ogaden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Ogaden, (oga´dan) (KEY) , region, in the Somali region, SE Ethiopia, bordering on Somalia. It is an arid region, inhabited mainly by Somali pastoral nomads. The region...

17) Menelik II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Menelik II, (men´lik) (KEY) , 1844-1913, emperor of Ethiopia after 1889. He was originally ras (ruler) of Shoa (central Ethiopia). After the death (1868) of Emperor...

18) Amharic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Amharic, (amhar´ik) (KEY) , language of Ethiopia belonging to the South Ethiopic group of Ethiopian Semitic languages, which, in turn, belong to the Southeast Semitic...

19) Abyssinia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Abyssinia, (ab´isin´ey) (KEY) : see Ethiopia....

20) Atbara. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Atbara, (at´bara) (KEY) , river, NE Africa, rising in NW Ethiopia and flowing c.500 mi (800 km) to the Nile in Sudan. There are few permanent settlements along its...