Ethiopian Tribes

According to their traditions they mark out their roots to Menelik I* (the child born of the queen of Sheba and King Solomon).  It is believed that the Sabaean (Sheban) people began to settle on the west coast of the Red Sea, from their home in southern Arabia, about 1000 BC. 
By about 1500 BC their [...]

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The origin of the name “Amhara” is arguable:
• some say it’s derived from the word amari, (meaning pleasing, agreeable, beautiful and gracious) (also mehare, gracious, containing the same m-h-r root as the verb to learn);
• Ethiopian historians such as Getachew Mekonnen Hasen say it is an ethnic name associated with Himyarites;
• Others say that it derives from Ge’ez, [...]

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The Amhara people are mostly farmers who live in the north central highlands of Ethiopia. 
The Amhara, numbering about 23 million, making up 30.1% of the country’s population according to the most recent 1994 census, are a Semitic people whose ancestors possibly came from what is modern-day Yemen. 
These people speak Amharic, the working language of the [...]

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