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		<title>The culture of Oromo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oromo society was traditionally arranged in accordance with gadaa, a social stratification method partially based on an eight-year cycle of age sets; yet over the centuries the age sets grew out-of-alignment with the actual ages of their members, and some time in the 1800s another age set system was established.
Under gadaa, every eight years the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of Oromo people</title>
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The Oromo are a native African ethnic group found in Ethiopia and to a smaller extent in Kenya. They are the largest single ethnic group in Ethiopia, at 32.1% of the population according to the 1994 census, and today numbering around 40 million.
The Oromo are one of the Cushitic speaking people living in Eastern and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Amhara people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Derivation of the name Amhara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The origin of the name &#8220;Amhara&#8221; 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&#8217;ez, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amhara people</title>
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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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaning and derivation of the name Ethiopia</title>
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The name Ethiopia derived, from the Greek form, aithiopia, from the two words aitho, &#8220;I burn&#8221;, and ops, &#8220;face&#8221;. It would hence mean the colored man&#8217;s land &#8212; the land of the scorched faces.
The Greeks called all peoples south of Egypt (particularly the area now known as Nubia; modern usage has transferred this name further [...]]]></description>
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