Why Did Abyssinia Change Its Name To Ethiopia?

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
EthiopiaCountry Profile: www.bbc.com/news/world-africa...
Abyssinia on Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/word/abyss...
The Native Races of Abyssinia: www.jstor.org/stable/3014359?...
Meaning & Derivation Of The Name Ethiopia: www.mytripblog.org/pg/blog/et...
When Did Abyssinia Become Ethiopia?: www.quora.com/When-did-Abyssi...
When Did Abyssinia Become Ethiopia?: www.quora.com/When-did-Abyssi...
King Evan of Aksum: streamafrica.com/culture/king-...
How King Evan of Axum made Ethiopia a Christian Nation: originalpeople.org/how-king-ez...
A Short History Of The Ethiopian Empire: www.rightforeducation.org/all-...
PRONUNCIATION SOURCES
Abyssinia: forvo.com/word/abyssinia/#en
Amharic: forvo.com/search/amharic/
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[@theterranempire2172]

Name Explain What about Axum?

[@dyllhanmatanda9888]

Name Explain Can we do Congo next (It is my home country)

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

Geo A video on Congo(or both countries) is a pretty neat idea like it could go through history of names both had.

[@dyllhanmatanda9888]

Meister Meme That would be awesome but I dont have patreon

[@lahavmorris9919]

Name Explain Do irland

[@Ulas_Aldag]

Ethiopia is such an interessting country. Rich in history and culture.

[@gabe7630]

but not money kill me now

[@bekeledaba787]

gabe you think you are funny? But idiot

[@supahotfire2352]

gabe say no more

[@prideofegypt388]

Ulaş Aldağ hh

[@isedsodm9479]

some eat raw meat

[@bonecanoe86]

They didn't want to be the first country covered by Geography Now because they wanted Barby to refine his craft a bit before he got to them, but they didn't want to wait so long that it would be 2085 before they were covered, so they went with an "E" name.

[@alex-sv8ru]

bonecanoe86 lmao

[@aidanwotherspoon905]

😂

[@KuyaBJLaurente]

Meanwhile, Zaire didn't wanna wait too long so it decided to rename itself after the river where its capital Kinshasa lies.

[@sion8]

+Salvador Laurente Jr The place was already known as Congo, before it switched to Zaire and later back to Congo. You know, you could simply call it *Congo-Kinshasa.*

[@KuyaBJLaurente]

Thanks for reminding me. Remembered it now. :)

[@uekiguy5886]

If you've never tried Ethiopian food, you should seek it out. It is a world-class cuisine.

[@fairs89]

Eritrean food is also top shelf. (It's like Italian-Ethiopian food)

[@natiman5850]

@@fairs89 lol it more or less the same

[@biiruki5983]

Ethiopian here just facts

[@YurianIsHim]

I eated Ethiopian food (been in ethiopia 2 years )

[@moni7803]

@@fairs89 most eritrean food isnt italian inspired, pls get ur facts straight lol. we have original foods like hambasha or our own versions of ethiopian food like kitcha fitfit. the only italian thing we eat in the country is pizza and panettone.

[@charlieblah]

In greek mythology the son of Helios stole his father's son chariot. He crashed from the heavens and burnt the ground, creating dessert and burnt the skin of those living there. I think that is the best explanation of why Greeks would refer to Ethiopians as people with burnt skin

[@papapapa2114]

Caroline Mc evoy yes...finally someone who read...

[@dargondude2375]

That is just a way to explain away the "burnt faces"

[@fruitsarelife148]

Geras Al-Aqras right 😂😂😂

[@95kostis]

Well you may not like it but you can largely thank the Greeks for the Advancement of the sciences during the Islamic Golden Age... I think I sense some jealousy hahahaha

[@95kostis]

People have their ups and downs that's how it goes. The current state of Greece is not good we all know that. But where would the Arabs be without all their oil? I think you have an idea that all the west is bad since they colonised and used other countries. But Greece and Ethiopia are both old Christian countries and I think they would generally regard each other with sympathy. Only you seem so angry about a crude description of a country that people used 2000 years ago, that makes you hate a modern nation. That's logic for you! (Maybe that's something one of the old philosophers could teach you some more about, something which your Holy Book frankly has some troubles with sometimes) And lastly maybe you should recheck the (not so small) role Arabs had in the slave trade Cheers mate

[@kiberenigestsebez6633]

You have given some incorrect information, the name Abyssinia is European term or reference to the abesha (habesha) people. Habesha is synonymous with Ethiopia for Ethiopians. Don’t forget that traditionally and in present day rural Ethiopia, no Ethiopians knows or heard the name Abyssinia. This word- Abyssinia came to be in use by Europeans sometimes after 1860s and they (European) dropped the word habesha from their writings . Before that period, for example in 15th century European writers like Baltazar Téllez (1595-1675), the author of the Historia General de Etiopía Alta (Coimbra, 1660), Refer Ethiopia as Ethiopia not as Abyssinia. Ethiopian king by the name ezana around 4th century had have coin on which the word Ethiopia was printed . therefore, don’t misinform us by saying Abyssinia changed its name to Ethiopia . that is incorrect

[@thegoingmeiry]

No Ethiopia wasn't even the name of Present day ethiopia, Africas was called ethiopia before Europeans called it ethiopia and then we ethiopians adobted that name from africa and called ourselves ethiopia but before that Ethiopia was called the kingdom of Axum and Arabs (not Europeans) called us Abysinians meaning Habesh in Arabic language, Europeans never even knew our land before suez canal constructed, all they talked about was the land of kush that is located in North Sudan

[@ohali5668]

Abyssinia means habesha, and almost all Ethiopian know that their land was called land of habesha, Land of habesha means the highlands of northeastern africa or horn of africa , it includes the highland or plateau and the riftvalley and lowland between the plateau , while habesha are the people who live their, Almost all Ethiopia are either habesha or omotic, Habesha is cushitic people mixed with Semite .

[@BF-bb5us]

@@thegoingmeiry They did Europeans referred to the nation as Abyssinia hence why it appears on maps of their doing. It was not Arabs that drew those maps

[@twilliamspro]

Abyssinia sounds much cooler

[@timmmahhhh]

Matt 1326 To colonial Eurpoeans maybe, not to anyone else.

[@mmmmmmok5292]

Better than burnt faces

[@supahotfire2352]

Greece • 2 thousand years ago fuck off

[@mmmmmmok5292]

Supa Hot Fire Why are you so mean

[@user-uc1xp2kn6d]

Greece • 2 thousand years ago coming from an Ethiopian, We have never been ashamed of our dark skin so I can proudly tell you as have my forefathers before me that we are from the land of Burnt Faces 😃, Europeans always focusing on trivial stuff like appearance that will decay some day

[@arescue]

Fun fact, Abyssinian cats are beautiful.

[@nnalan4886]

arescue Also their women

[@papapapa2114]

We are very proud of what we are...

[@eliran9231]

arescue aren't abyssinian cats found in egypt?

[@damanredarnishu5509]

eliran789 nope they are found in ethiopia

[@eliran9231]

shuni nishu well, good to know, going to adopt one then

[@yrthchannel5701]

They never cought Ethiopia

[@MrTohawk]

It isnt a disease...

[@4skinhunter]

MrTohawk r/woooosh

[@ptfodity]

James Fulford LET ME BE IN THE SCREENSHOT

[@danielvasile3100]

At least China is whole again

[@ChoiceSnarf]

Daniel Vasile And it broooke againnn!

[@TedlaMelakuERC]

The background music sounds Central or West African, which doesn't represent Ethiopian culture. This keeps happening in almost every western documentary or video about Ethiopia. Abyssinians/Ethiopians have their own musical instruments and sounds.

[@TKO67]

That is what happens every time as they wish to present History their way not the way it happened. Kush\Cush existed long before Abssiniana

[@JV-km9xk]

Can someone help me? What website is he using at 2:43? It looks like a wiki but I cannot find it. I checked all the links in the description and I still cannot find it.

[@yonas2828]

​@@TKO67 Ethiopian kingdom called d'mat happened before 1200 BC. It's more than 3000 years from now. Not to mention the kingdom of punt which was even before d'mat. When did the kingdom of cush happened tell me with proof or research.

[@TKO67]

@@yonas2828 i said "Kush\Cush existed long before Abssiniana" What does that have to do with d'mat ???????

[@ohali5668]

@@TKO67 dmat is way before kush

[@LarzGustafsson]

I've been there twice. I got married there on January 21, 1990.

[@williamjames4031]

Larz Gustafsson Ohh really?

[@BeryAb]

Larz Gustafsson Nice :-)

[@cybertronian2005]

why did you choose Ethiopia to get married?

[@ajl2232]

Cool

[@juiceleethewarriorpoet]

Ur a colonizer

[@eliran9231]

we are my habeshas at !!!

[@BeryAb]

eliran789 ሠላም, ጓደኛ

[@eliran9231]

Bery hi there brother

[@BeryAb]

eliran789 :-)

[@user-uc1xp2kn6d]

Endemin alachu nefsoch? 😊😊

[@BeryAb]

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[@yonashaile8633]

Ethiopia is Ethiopia since ever. Just Europeans and the Arabs are calling the country Abyssinia and Habesha, respectively. Very old Ethiopia scriptures call the country Ethiopia. Please, check your sources.

[@ohali5668]

We Ethiopian are habesha, even arabs know us by our orginal name which is habesha, while European change habesha/ abesha to abyssa So Abyssinia is literally habesha. Your name is yonas haile so go ask your parent if they are habesha or Ethiopia

[@user-cb5kk2ei3f]

But you forgot to mention that Ethiopia became the only independent country because of thier bravery victory at the battle of Adwa.

[@yaredhailegiorgis2512]

We Ethiopians have never used the name Abyssinia to refer to our country. It is mainly foreigners especially European who used the term Abyssinia.

[@Lwilight]

I am glad you see the great inaccuracies in this video (unfortunately this only one mistake, the other was attributing the name Ethiopia as having Greek origins). This is why it is important to educate ourselves and our children about our national history; as it is the best way to combat ignorance.

[@Akuki100]

It is completely wrong; the name Ethiopia comes from the peoples who follow the wise King Ethop (King Ethop is a man who wisely rule the northern part of the country, specifically around the lake of Tana and the Nile source regions. King Ethop is claimed to be the son of old testament Melchizedek. By the way still the name Melchizedek is very common in current Ethiopia). With this small background, if you follow king Rastafari you will be known as Rastafarian, similarly these peoples who follow the wise King Ethop teachings and way of life were known as Ethopian. At that time, Ethopians were very famous in philosophy and writings; even that era is claimed to be the origin of current Ethiopian art, which is completely different from other arts of the globe. Anyway due to the popularity of the wise King Ethop and his followers (known as Ethopian), the Greeks come to visit them. After the Greeks complete their visit, they went back home; in their home (in Greek) peoples ask them how this great wise King and his followers look like? did they look like us? Then the visitors respond to the question by saying they are like sun burned individual. After that when the Greeks see sun burned individual they ask him or her are you a follower of Ethop. For further information read the old books of Greeks, these visitors wrote books about the greatness of King Ethop and his followers (known as Ethopian). This clearly shows you the name Ethiopia comes as a reference to peoples who follow the wise King Ethop.

[@yohannisnicos]

I have two question for you 1 what is ur ref? 2 Is it a coincidence that the word aitho-ops means "burnt-face" and Ethiopians ("followers of king Ethiop") kinda linked in your story?

[@rimpick]

Yohannis Nicos burnt faced Ethiopians are Nilotic people of the biblical Ethiopia aka Sudan

[@alaagoni8227]

Just talk no prove

[@BLACKSTARMOVEMENTS]

King Ethiopis son of Melchezidek from the land of Canaan, and founder of Ethiopia ( land of yellow gold) Sudan later upper Nile region.

[@LeullBSwagin]

This is VERY WRONG my friend! Ethiopia came from the name of a very ancient Ethiopian king Ityop! Not from the two Greeks words! There just happen to be a Greek word that sounds somewhat similar. Plus Ethiopia’s so called darker skinned population is smaller compared to the majority that are brown so it wouldn’t even make sense to name it after a word that means “burnt face”

[@nahomb2784]

It's that whitewash lol. And they also say we're not black. Wtf??

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Just accept man. Stop inventing things as you go. The Greeks were racist you didn’t understand and thought they were giving you good name but you just found out they were being racist. Take a loss and keep moving forward.

[@nahomb2784]

JAMACAD DA UMMAD DA you sound stupid. It's not a movie, know the facts and move on.

[@ethiopiangirl5661]

JAMACAD DA UMMAD DA why do somalis keep commenting nonsense under ethiopian videos? Just gtfo and take your jealousy with you.

[@fruitsarelife148]

Leull Belete I know they trying they whitewashing on us now 😂😂😂😂

[@RasGoshu]

Facts the maker of this video has no clue about:- 1) Never in her thousands of years of history, Ethiopia, has ever been called Abyssinia. Abyssinia is a name colonial minded European powers with their so called academics, tried to impose on the country in the 19th century. This way, they figured, the would divorce the people from their biblical name "Ethiopia" to their Arabic derived and Latinized name "Abyssinia" and make it easier for their purpose in their mad scramble to colonize Africa. 2)Ethiopia does not mean "burnt face" neither the name itself is of Greek origin. Before the tiny islands of Ionia and the Aegean peninsula became a polity to become a nation known as Greece around 700 b.c, Ethiopia was already thousands years old. The latter name can not name the former, that is absurd! More over, the classical Greek word for black or burnt (as they say) is not "Aithiop" or the nonsense that they spew, the superlative adjective for black in Greek is "melanochros" not Aethiop! 3)Ethiopia is a name derived from the old Ethiopic (Ge'ez) language which can be translated only in Ethiopic script. Ethiop, is the grandson of the biblical son of Noah, Kush. Ethiop, which can be translated to "yellow gold" in the Ethiopic language is the the King who lent his his name to present Ethiopia, as the father of the rainbow people of Ethiopians and most of the present "ethnic" groups.

[@rexflores8461]

Thank you. I'm watching this video thinking that the shit makes no damn sense

[@wedshieb]

Ancient Ethiopia was located in north Sudan, the present day Ethiopia has nothing with ancient Ethiopia . The capital of ancient Ethiopia was Meroe city in northern Sudan .

[@norpriest521]

@Micheal Hnat What's the oldest country in Africa?

[@norpriest521]

@Micheal Hnat thank you

[@wab4425]

Mahtem thank you so much about your “ fact check”

[@user-mf7zh9zj9b]

You got it WRONG. Ethiopia did not came from Greek. The Greek name translation is the story develop by Europeans. The Name Ethiopia exist even before the Greek nation exist. Iytop is the grand son of Cush. Read Old Testment Books Genesis, Psalms, Moses and King Solomon Books. You will find Ethiopia. The Greek nation didn't exists that time. How the nation exists thousands years later were able give a name for the people lived before. Don't make sense. You need to correct your video. One of Adam son Named Orite establish Ethiopia. Ethiopians knows our history origin and naming. Don't give your hypothesis as true justification.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

You are in denial. Accept what your mental colonizers did and correct it if you think its wrong.

[@ibrahimabdul1624]

ቤንች ፕ Wrong

[@nahomb2784]

True

[@nahomb2784]

Said that for those who blindly accept their words.

[@nahomb2784]

tesfahiwet adig You've made zero point. Go away dummy

[@abemisr4370]

People living in the area use the name Habesha to refer to themselves, and call the country Ethiopia. This has been the case for more than 1500 years. During the 18th and 19th century, the name Abyssinia was used very commonly in Europe to refer to the country. However, the emperors in the country never used the term Abyssinia. They always called themselves as Emperor of Ethiopia. Another point, the reason people love the name Ethiopia is because it is mentioned more than 40 times in the bible. After the country became Christian in 4th century, the name Ethiopia started being used widely domestically.

[@thegoingmeiry]

The name Ethiopia was the name of Africa. Before present day ethiopia adobted it's name, we were called by Habeshi or kingdom of Axum but at that time Africa used to be called by Ethiopia and then we adopted it and called ourselves ethiopia.

[@BF-bb5us]

@@thegoingmeiry No, Did not refer to ourselves as Habesha

[@hoangkimviet8545]

In Africa, there are many situations like Ethiopia. For example, Zaire became Democratic Republic of Congo :-0

[@hoangkimviet8545]

Prussian Eagle What do you mean? :-0

[@TheUglyGnome]

Nope. Zaire is former name of Democratic Republic of Congo. Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia before that.

[@gustialt]

no zaire isn't Zimbabwe

[@gustialt]

zaire is kongo

[@hoangkimviet8545]

TheUglyGnome Oh. Maybe I wrong. Let's see :-0

[@bimbi.entertainment]

There was an Axumite king named Ethiopis (Aethiopis) during the Axum civilization. Some argue the country's name is not an entirely Greek name because of that. Curious, don't you think?

[@fingernailclipper2152]

Woah I didn’t know Ethiopia used to be named Abyssinia! Thanks for once again enlightening me! :D

[@NameExplain]

You're welcome!

[@zotoda]

i did it was in call the midwife and the crown

[@kiberenigestsebez6633]

he has given some incorrect information, the name Abyssinia is European term or reference to the Habesha people. Habesha is synonymous with Ethiopia for Ethiopians. traditionally in old times and in present day rural Ethiopia, no Ethiopians knows or heard the name Abyssinia. This word- Abyssinia came to be in use by Europeans sometimes after 1860s and they (European) dropped the word habesha from their writings . Before that period, for example, in 15th century, European writers like Baltazar Téllez (1595-1675), the author of the Historia General de Etiopía Alta (Coimbra, 1660). Refer Ethiopia as Ethiopia, not as Abyssinia. Ethiopian king by the name ezana around 4th century had have coin on which the word Ethiopia was printed . therefore, he misinform us saying Abyssinia changed its name to Ethiopia

[@lolhaha8922]

Abyssinia is not exactly Abyssinia! Abyssinia and Ethiopia is like England and UK.

[@tahliah6691]

lobsterbale 2 ancient Ethiopia wasn’t Kush. Sudan is ancient Cush. Ethiopia as you said means Africa. Modern Ethiopians are mixed race part Arab and part native East African. Sudan had a lot of ancient history pertaining to ancient Egypt at Meroe eg the most pyramids etc. Kush is Ham, not Semite therefore is not Ethiopia as a mixed race country. Cairo museum explains this. Habesha are a minority tribe in Ethiopia not the majority Ethiopian habesha refuses to believe they are mixed race they look it. Arabs confirm that... king Tirhakah was a kushite/Sudanese-ruler, not Ethiopian. Before being called Abyssinia Ethiopia was called Axum no where near Sudan or Egypt. Yes the ancient maps are correct at the time

[@DianaMarisol.]

Just yesterday I watched a video about Ethiopia´s history.

[@YouMe-ih5xi]

DIANA ZETINA OCEGUEDA what video did u watch?

[@DianaMarisol.]

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[@youhannamagedfares]

Actually the Arabic name corresponding with Abyssinia is pronounced Habasha (حبشة) Not Habasa

[@1258-Eckhart]

In the Middle Ages there were reports of a legendary Kingdom with a Christian King called Prester John. Expeditions set out to find him and one of the most favoured destinations was Ethiopia/Abyssinia (the last one in 1520).

[@Darastrixen]

Patrick! I absolutely love your videos, they're really easy to follow and they give meaning to places! Thanks for your work :)

[@seanregehr4921]

Ethiopia is not a Greek name. That is a lie. Ethiopia means the good land and is the foundation that borne the greatness of all of Egypt. Aethiopia/Ethiopia is also the correct and True name of what is today so called "Africa". Even the so called "South Atlantic ocean" is a lie and is Truly called the Ethiopic ocean. The Greek explanation you gave is simply the Greek interpretation of a word that is not native to their tongue.

[@cinematiccreator716]

explain?

[@nikodimos3383]

Hi Sean, Thank you so much we need more people like you to make videos not the people who don’t have any idea about history.

[@cinematiccreator716]

@@nikodimos3383 true

[@cinematiccreator716]

@Micheal Hnat true

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

The name “Ethiopia” was stolen actually its was a name for a legendary people and when hebesha heart of it they said nice we shall steal their history and reputation that’s why they changed from Abyssinia to “Ethiopia”

[@hiddenhist]

Ethiopians never actually really called themselves "Abyssinian" (except for modern Ethiopians trying to romanticize their past). Northern (Semitic) Ethiopians used the name "Habesh" to described themselves for a long time, (habesha is specifically the ethnicity of Ethiopians who live in the north), but Ethiopians from what I can tell have a different idea of where the name "Ethiopia" comes from. I hear that they have a founding myth that a guy named Ityoopas fouded Axum in their Book of Axum, though this might be false seeing as to how the only places I've seen make this claim are sites like Quora and other online forums. Medieval Ethiopians called their state "Ethiopia" though, not Abyssinia.

[@user-qr8pb6vd6k]

HiddenHistory it was used interchangably and actually many people from the south also identify as habesha not only northerners

[@hiddenhist]

As far as I know, Christian Ethiopia (which primarily dominated Northern Ethiopia, but did also dominate central ethiopia), the same region who would basically build modern Ethiopia to what it is today during Menelik's campaigns, has always known herself as Ethiopia, atleast since Medieval Ethiopia, this being why I said what I said. I am aware that others called them "Habesh", I think a part of that has to do with the fact that Europeans got their name for Ethiopia from the Arabs, who called them Habesh, and curropted it to make Abyssinia, which they then called Ethiopia. Sort of how the Greeks and Romans called Iran Persia but the Iranians never called themselves Persian. Menelik II sure did, along with other 1800s Shewan nobility, who considered themselves the kings of Ethiopia. It's a name that carries alot of historical value to them, in that regard.

[@TheWoollyFrog]

Many countries dealing with exonyms adopt post-factum creation myths and legends that give a new meaning to the name. It doesn't event have to be countries. We do this with people names too. For example, "Madison" means son of Maud, but since this is now a popular female name, many people will tell you that its meaning and origins are completely different from this one.

[@abemisr4370]

HiddenHistory I agree with you. Since Aksumite times, they refer to themself as Ethiopians

[@BW-fz5kf]

HiddenHistory it's not a myth

[@mmmmmmok5292]

Excuse us, we are sorry for the "burnt face" thing but i was young and immature and i didn't know about other races Sorry ethiopia Sorry africa Sorry central ameria and caribbean Sorry world

[@teddroberts269]

Lol. Dont worry Ethiopia is not a greek name.

[@mmmmmmok5292]

Did u watch the vid? It said that it comes from the greek words aith and opia or smth like that! Anyway thx for replying bye bye!

[@ta2516]

Greece • 2 thousand years ago don’t be sorry for the things you haven’t done

[@deusvult1202]

The Unknown nah it’s cool

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Lol we at least have one repenting Greek. Hey we will consider in forgiving you many of us haven’t even realized you were offending us even the ones that learned the abuse are still in denial

[@Aviationlord7742]

I always wondered about this. Excellent video as always mate

[@Lwilight]

Incorrect information

[@Aprill264]

Wow, this is even a name change i didnt know about, keep it up :)

[@fruitsarelife148]

Fiery Gaming he is wrong, it's actually from king ityop from the axumite empire back then, but I guess greek has built planet earth to europeans.

[@Lwilight]

@@fruitsarelife148 it's truly unfortunate that this video hasn't been revised to correct the blatant error.

[@pragmatistyouth1774]

The weirdest thing is about the origin of the name Ethiopia being from a Greek word when translated "burnt face" as if Ethiopians represent the Bantu's (Native Africans). For all I know the majority of Ethiopians are Semitic and Cushitic origion and they are one of the most beautiful people on the planet.

[@Lwilight]

Ethiopia is not derived from Greek words, this KZbinr is misinformed.

[@yungslash8616]

What are you talking about? Cushitics and Nilo Saharans are also native Africans dude

[@MegaSavvis]

to be fair to the ancient Greeks, they also regarded Ethiopians to be the most beautiful people in the world.

[@BF-bb5us]

Bantu is a language family just like semitic not a people and Ethiopians are just as native as other Africans. Trying to dislocate the history does not work.

[@Dumansnl-sl3sp]

The Habesha people also known as Abyssinians, are a population group inhabiting the Horn of Africa, which was situated in the northern highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The peoples referred to as "Habesha" today the Amhara,Tigray, Biher-Tigrinya and include Tigre people of Christian background. The term "Habesha" was formerly thought by some scholars to be of Arabic descent because the English name Abyssinia comes from the Arabic form.The Christian Kingdom of Aksum, present-day Ethiopia, Eritrea and Yemen (formerly referred to as Abyssinia, a name derived from the Arabic Al-Habash).

[@ohali5668]

No, Thats a big wrong defination of habesha, Habesha is not ethnicity its a people name, Habesha is a name indigenous to people who live together in northeastern african highland plateau and great ethiooian riftvalley , and they are originally cushite people mixed with semite, Thats why i call habeshan people semitocushite, Habesha is not specifically Christians or amhara tigrayan and tigre ❌it include other tribe of Ethiopia like agaw gurage and other tribes of central Ethiopia

[@LarzGustafsson]

Excellent video, mate.

[@Saturntwilight]

Great video patrick!

[@bayareajokester9456]

Good question.

[@bayareajokester9456]

Omae wa mo shindeiru.

[@igo1071]

Abyssinia Empire that mans ETHIOPIA💚💛❤️

[@kibret22]

This is misinformation only foreign writers site Abyssinya ... Local chronicles and autors never used Abyssynia in Ethiopias 3000 yrs history .

[@Jan_Koopman]

I have a suggestion for a next video: "Why is the name of the Netherlands plural in almost every language, except Dutch?" Or: "Why did the Netherlands change its name from 《de Nederlanden》 to 《Nederland》?"

[@HenkdeYouTubesteen]

Jan Koopman ja dat kan maar hij heeft al een video over Nederland

[@uekiguy5886]

Good suggestion. Also, why does it have "The" in front.

[@HenkdeYouTubesteen]

uekiguy the exact translation is : de Nederlanden but in dutch we say Nederland wich translates to Netherland. Simply: it's plural in English.

[@uekiguy5886]

Henk--Interesting--thank you very much for that info.

[@Jan_Koopman]

Henk de KZbinsteen, ik weet dat hij al een vid over NL heefy gedaan, maar dit is misschien wel interessant om te behandelen... leek mij ten minste

[@daddyleon]

The kingdom of D'Mt..no wonder it was renamed to Abyssinia. That's what too much DMT does, it throws you into an abyss.

[@bosnakedisniksic]

*ba dum tsss*

[@gabe7630]

F

[@PurpleAmharicCoffee]

I would think of it as The Kingdom of Dammit.

[@Muffinmurdurer]

I think you mean "Ba Dm't sss"

[@dublue5854]

daddyleon sir, you know too much. I think you should come with us.

[@eliran9231]

the reason why habesha means mixed is not because of the diversity of modern ethiopia, but becasue the inhabitants of ancient ethiopia (northern ethiopians) are cushitic people mixed with semitic people. the non semitic speakers of ethiopia weren't part of ethiopia in ancient times.

[@eliran9231]

r .ra humans (homo sapiens) came from Africa, but Semitic people are not genetically the same as homo sapiens, their ancestors evolved to their current phenotype. also, Arabs don't have one look or one genetic cluster, Arab Syrians are white like Europeans and Egyptians are more black than the average Arab in the Arabian peninsula, who exited before the arrival of the Turks and Persians to the Arabian peninsula (Turks came to Asia minor about 1000 years ago).

[@TheWoollyFrog]

When race obsession meets religious extremism.^

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

lobsterbale 2 Oromos are are recently conquered and colonized recently by milinikh stupid less than 100 years Oromia wasn’t part of Abyssinia so stop lying about history and reality.

[@eliran9231]

JAMACAD DA UMMAD DA oromos had some influence on dynastic blood lines (after the war with the somalis at 15th century) and all kings that came from shewa (a region within the amhara region which is heavily oromo by blood) had oromo blood. 135 years ago the oromos were conquered by the abyssinians and were "assimilated" to the Abyssinian empire, but not ethnically assimilated to amharic and tigrynia culture and are basically another alien ethnic group living within ethiopia like the other conquered, they are ethiopians as somalis living in Ogden.

[@Jstar697]

lobsterbale 2 no they didn't you liar you Oromo came in 1500 from bale after Gragns invasion you have no historical links before 1500/s your root is madagascar

[@qwastew]

The border lines for Ethiopia and Abyssinia are way different (as you probably already know). Most of the southeast/northeast belonged to a different kingdom which wasn't claimed by ethiopia until the late 1800s. The inhabitants there didnt even go by habashi(in arabic adding the I at the end of a word shows affiliation with that thing therefore habashi=people of habash/Abyssinia). There are older maps drawn out by the arabs showing the distinction between the lands.

[@JV-km9xk]

Can someone help me? What website is he using at 2:43? It looks like a wiki but I cannot find it. I checked all the links in the description and I still cannot find it.

[@octavianmocreac3901]

Cool vid bro

[@CmonNowTellme]

Abyssinia is related to Amazigh.Abyssin is mispronounced word of Amazig. On the other hand, Ethiopia is kind of degotery Greek word which means "Burned face" which means black. All around red sea and Medetrean sea live people of dark skin. This people were there forever. They were warriors who defeated every attacking forces sinceEgyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Roman's and late Europeans colonists. Some Europeans thought were mixed race. However, they were natives who span from what is known today Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, South Egypt, North Sudan,Libya, Aljeria(Amazigh), Morocco, Tunisia, Chad, Muritania(Moors), Mali(Tuareg) and Niger. From 711 when Arab Muslims concurred North Africa most of Amazigh became Muslims till today. These people are little different physically their subsaharan brothers and sisters. Most of this community are fierce warriors who always fought horseback.

[@m.kostoglod7949]

2:45 In russian we call it Эфиопия(Ethiopia), not Abyssinia.

[@Batavia2000]

When the ancient Greeks referred to Ethiopia they were talking about Nubia (modern day Sudan). When the Kingdom of Aksum (modern day Ethiopia) conquered Nubia they adopted the Greek name.

[@fruitsarelife148]

Batavia there is no greek name, european fantasies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Batavia2000]

Peace 1 What do you call it then?

[@danielmeleaku1061]

The greeks actually called all africans south of the Sahara "Ethiopians". Even in the Cartheginian expedition to west africa they refer to the people there as Ethiopians. Probably referring to them all being black instead of the otherwise more light brown africans in north africa.

[@Mercure250]

2:43 List of names linked to "Abyssinia"... and there's "Ethiopy" at the end

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

Please also make similar videos about Iran/Persia, Thailand/Siam, Swaziland/eSwathini thanks!

[@elijahmikhail4566]

I believe he explained Iran's name change in his video about it and Iraq.

[@amehak1922]

Persia was the Greek name, iran was the native name.

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

Ameha K well, I guess Persia comes from the native word of Pars, which is a region in southern Iran, hmmm...

[@raheltesfaye3426]

Omg been wondering for ages

[@Lwilight]

This is incorrect information, please consider looking at a different source.

[@luchofran]

Hi there! I'm not sure if you talked about this, but who decides on exonyms? i mean, who says "they call it Deustchland, but to me it will be Germany/Alemania/Allemagne,/etc?

[@fruitsarelife148]

It was named after king Ityop, nothing to do with greece. Stop trying to be included in everything. Did Greece even exist back then?? Lol

[@90soromomusic28]

No u dumb guy its greek word for black person of the kingdom of kush of the upper nile. For example the Bible mentions a king thraka of Ethiopia which was famous king of kush who ruled over egypt or also know as the black phero. So it as got nothing to do with abysinya

[@sweetwheatsy]

That's... sort of sad, really. A more lush word that describes the nation as a sort of melting pot, being replaced by a word rooted in a different language depicting another folk's crude description of the people.

[@Letsbebetter123]

SweetWheatsy We Ethiopians claimed the word Black. Because regardless of our mixtures in the end of the day we are black. Being black is a source of pride for us.

[@sweetwheatsy]

So do you generally regard it in a positive light? I just get the impression it was forced upon you to change the name to make it more suited for international purposes, but if you don't mind the definition and the implications of it, and like it more than Abynissia, I mean that's perfect, in that case.

[@jimmyalderson1639]

SweetWheatsy that's the problem witha. Lot of people. They assume moh these people will be offended by this' and they tend to attack people because of it, not saying you've attacked anyone in fact what you said is quite logical. But many people will be furious and attack people and label them as racists and bigots because they assume a group should be offended (these people are called SJWs). I used to do a similar thing, until someone got offended on my behalf and i thought 'who the hell do they think they are?' And realised how out of place i was being. A few times i was in school and a friend asked me 'what's your favourite colour' i said 'red and black' and almost the instant i finished the word 'black' about five people called me a racist, as if calling a black person black should be an insult. That's what i find ironic a lot of the time people k 'you called a chinese person chinese/black person black/asian person asian/etc. That's racist' but the irony is that by insinuating that an etc person wouldn't want to be associated with etc is actually saying that being etc is wrong

[@sweetwheatsy]

I understand what you're trying to say, it's just that in this case, the connotation was quite special. Normally, I'd say "burnt face" has a pretty negative association - especially compared to "mixed". But hey, it differs.

[@jimmyalderson1639]

SweetWheatsy if ylu look at almost any old word and look into its etymology or you look at some foreign words and translate them into english directly they almost always sound unnecessarily blunt. For example the word for 'foreign country' in Spanish is 'estrajero' (or something like that) and what it means is 'strange land'. What's wrong? Are spanish people racist? Do they not know that the lands are not strange but just different? Of course not, it's just relative. It's only in the modern day that people think that saying something as it is is crude and insensitive. For example if a person has innate brain damage what do you call them? There used to be words you could use but now they're all bad. Retarded --> challenged --> disabled --> differently abled --> special. How do you descrobe a person with dark skin? Negro --> black --> *no appropriate word*. What makes something inappropriate is the intent behind it. The word 'nigger' for example IS racist, because of how it was used. The word 'black' isn't racist, but lots ofmpeople insist that it is for no reason. As the man said on this thread, bej black is something Ethiopians are proud of. It's like if you were to call me 'ghost skin' it sounds a bit strange but if you call everybody of my race that then i guess its a heritage. Black people have a histlry of suffering and perserverence and they should be proud of that. Similar,y white people have a history of philosophy and science and they should be proud of that. That dlesn't mean that if you're white or black you're smart of worthy of unconditional sympathy, but you have a history to look upon. And of course they'r ebkth human so they can both be proud of of what humanity as a whole has achieved, even if the achievements were made by a different race. I understand that you think of describing a land as diverse is much nicer than describing the people that live there, but calling it a mixture actually gives it less of a characteristic nature. America, england, germany, ethiopa are all full of different races and religions and such - in fact it's. Ore characteristic to not be called a diverse country. So your country's name should have some sort of pride associated with it. For england it's the Land of the Angles, harmening to old Germanic history. But if i lived in 'Land of Lots of Stuff' i wouldn't feel any sort of of pride Some people don't like national pride, but without national pride the world will gradually move towards being a monotonous rock where everything's the same. So being prideful doesn't necessarily mean being undiverse. But imagine if you were really proud of your countr, then you look at a list of countries and what their names mean and you see: Land of the Angles, Land of the Burnt Faces, Land of the Rising Sun, Then yours is: Land of Lots of People If i had a choice between my country being: Land of Diversity or Land of the Angles, i'd definitely pick the latter

[@Kwamu22]

Thank you for the info Answered a question I've been finding an answer to for years. Informative to know that Ezana used the term "Ethiopia."

[@Lwilight]

As many have commented, this video is incorrect. In no way did Ethiopia get its name from Greek, it makes no sense if you spend 2min thinking about it. Ethiopia is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) Christian country, with their own ancient alphabet (still being used). Consider reading through the e comments and you will see the ignorance of this video.

[@Kwamu22]

@@Lwilight thanks for the additional info. Good to kmow.

[@kalimsaba185]

Thank you fore exactly explain!

[@randomusername8767]

D’mt isn’t even Ethiopian is Eritrean that stretch into some over northern Ethiopia

[@theprodigy2236]

Doesnt depend on geographical territories its Ethiopian history. Eritrea has a history of 30 year old I dont know why you keep telling that Ethiopias history as if it were yours. Example punt kingdom is found in todays Somalia mostly it was probably ruled by ancient Ethiopias that started axum and damat but Somalis claim it as thier own history

[@gjkkhfdsdfjkvfhjk8718]

@@theprodigy2236 Axumite History is not only the cultural heritage of Tigray, since it was much larger than modern Tigray. The Tigre people of Sudan and to some extent of Eritrea are the most related modern people with the ancient people of Axum (geneticall and linguistical) and not the Tigrinya speakers of Tigray and Eritrea. And regarding D'mt: Most pre-aksumitic archeological sites are to be found in Eritrea and to a lesser extent in Sudan and Ethiopia. Regarding Punt: Punt was a land describe in writings of ancient Egyptians. Till this day we don't even know the exact location. Some Archeologicist even assume that it could be located in Kenya or in the Arabian peninsula. Therefore it doesn't make sense to say that the people of Punt were Ethiopians without even knowing it's exact location. And by the way: Ethiopian is not an ethnicity. Ethiopia and the horn of Africa is one of the most ethnical diverse regions of Africa. You have semitic, cushitic, nilotic, omotic, batu and about 24 isolated ethnicities.

[@Panos-zr7of]

In ancient Greece Ethiopia meant all of Africa were people were black. It wasn't used only for the today's country.

[@prideofegypt388]

Panos3301 nope just Ethiopian you Bantus didn't arrive intel the 1800s

[@isedsodm9479]

Romans have invented the word ''Africa'', and it was meant for north africa.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

It’s basically how they describe countries in Africa as Africa like it’s one small village where everyone is the same.

[@fruitsarelife148]

Panos3301 stop bringing up worthless Greek all the time

[@Panos-zr7of]

Peace 1 no

[@2TomDog]

"Saint Tom of Ethiopia" that has a nice ring to it. Thanks for taking my suggestion.

[@natinati5891]

There is a restaurant called Abyssinia near where my school bus drops us. Idk why I mentioned this.

[@nikolajankovic96]

How cool would it be to ive in place called D'mt. They shoul change it again, it would be THE coolest name of any country

[@eliran9231]

arada lij no, sounds ancient, abyssinia sounds better and cooler

[@DoctorHorse]

The interesting thing is in Turkish in the ottoman times the name of Ethiopia was Habeşistan (ş is read like sh) but now we call the country Etiyopya.

[@flinstone96]

what interesting about that

[@eliran9231]

عرب نيوز that it may have origins from Arab writings.

[@yorgunsamuray]

The Turkish name during the time where Abyssinia was mostly used was "Habeşistan", yes, it was a -stan country in Turkish as well. Now almost universally we call them Etiyopya..

[@Abel-cn9gf]

The word Ethiopia is come from two words "eth"which means gift and "opia" which means topaz that exist only in Ethiopia. it has religious backgrounds for this name. Ethiopians have covenant with God to give this topaz to messiah when he was born. We are peoples that have covenant with God.

[@mkkm8540]

Why did you say it came from Greek word there is no evidence about that just because the words is similar to the Greeks word you can't say it is of Greek origin the Ethiopian name in Amharic sounds ityopia And ethiopia existed long before the greeks

[@meganhey2582]

Mi Se thank you. White people wanting to take credit for everything they can't be. Lol.

[@stamatiamichelaki5008]

@@meganhey2582 What you said is idiotic we are not trying to claim everything , the maker of the video is just ignorant and has poor researching skills

[@stamatiamichelaki5008]

@@meganhey2582 also are you saying that White people are all the same because we are not! just see how many wars we had to prove that . Εντάξει;

[@meganhey2582]

STAMATIA MICHELAKI Sorry, I didn’t mean all white people. I just meant some white people do this. Not every white person.

[@stamatiamichelaki5008]

@@meganhey2582 The thing is everyone does it Somalians with Ethiopians, North Macedonians with Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians ect. so just don't use "white people" we aren't all the same. Also, if it's appropriate from what country are you from?

[@Phil-zx5yc]

It's a good short video but it doesn't explain enough so let me add some additional information. First thing Abyssinia is a cool name but not as grander and more historically relevant as Ethiopia aka Cush aka Nuba Sudan. Ethiopia is the first nation to be mentioned in the Bible Genesis creation, Ethiopia also mentioned over 44 times seconded to only Isreal. So as Ethiopia is a Christian nation this fact is a very big deal.

[@nahomb2784]

They don't know shit. Ethiopia is not a greek word too

[@Phil-zx5yc]

Yes, their knowledge is from the shallow end of the pool, they rather believe wild speculations rather than delving a little deeper to find about the truth.

[@nahomb2784]

All Kindz! GraphicGearz! Yep, he could find way to many sources. But he chose to go to the one with no source.

[@KB-wp6tl]

Thank you so much to tell me my on History, I'm so proud I'm Ethiopia 🙏

[@Lwilight]

Hello Kedest, this video is very much mistaken in its description of the origin of the name Ethiopia for our country. I would recommend looking at better sources, since this video is filled with blatant errors/ inaccuracies.

[@clyde4624]

Very interesting!

[@kaiserwilhelm3933]

I always thought they were just the same, used in the same time, but lost populairty in modern times. (Like Persia)

[@kaiserwilhelm3933]

The Unknown Yeah, but everyone calls it "Iran" now. I like Persia though.

[@eliran9231]

Kaiser Wilhelm isn't the name iran the name ancient Persian used to refer to themselves?

[@marewatnafu1524]

The meaning of Ethiopia is not as you said. No country named by an outsider. When it has a bad meaning....This is nonesense and trying to insult. Ethiopian call them self Ethiopian not by Greeks. Except recent years no a single Ethiopian appreciate a friegner and accept a name given by outsiders. That is why Ethiopia was independent these much long years more than 3000 years. Ethiopia is a word comes from a king named Ethiopis which means Ghion's Yellow Gold Gift. That is the meaning Ethiopians understand themselves. Please don't give some other meaning when a word have the same sound in other language. It could have been better if you said the word Ethiopia comes from Utopia a more close sound and acceptable. In your next video please show us the difference between Utopia and Ethiopia. Thanks!

[@narwar4042]

If you read your bible then you will know that Ethiopia actually means the "people of burnt face". God said that, not Europeans. Ethiopians are Hamites. The original name is Ethiopia not Abyssinia! Ethiopia is perfect as it is, nothing is needed. Adam or God gave it name Ethiopia no one else.

[@marewatnafu1524]

NAR WAR Yes correct, Ethiopia is an exact name as it is but the meaning is not as you said. Ethiopian are hamites, yes of course. But how do you mean by hamites means people of burned faces. You missed the point, neither Ethiopia nor hamites means to say burned face. Ham is a son of Noah. People from Ham races are called hamites. Hamites include not only Ethiopians but also Somalis, Egyptians. That is it. Don't be confused. The Ethiopians themselves are the only and best choices to give a meaning for their own names. I think God has never insult a human being.

[@narwar4042]

Marew Atnafu burt face isn't an insult, unless you think white face is beautiful. Its the other way around in the bible. Just read your bible and you will understand.

[@marewatnafu1524]

I have never thought that "White is beautiful.". I am saying a face can be described by a color, not be a bi product of some actions. The name could be black, or something else from one of the colors that exactly matches with the faces.

[@TobiyahTafari]

Yes, Ethiopia has its root in Afro-Shemetic languages, and has its etymology in the word "Tobiya"

[@LarzGustafsson]

Did you do Switzerland? Why is it called Helvetica on the stamps?

[@soulaimab9871]

he did a video on that already you should check it out

[@user-sz6kw5tc4x]

"Habesha means mixed" where did you get the meaning. i am Habesha but there is not any single language in Ethiopia that translate habesha in to mixed.

[@ir0nbear613]

Do Persia -> Iran plz

[@flinstone96]

fuck iran

[@apple123and]

Why Hong Kong is called Hong Kong for next?

[@Only.D.G.]

Apple123and Because there lived King Kong

[@gabe7630]

because english sailors went to china and they went to hong kong and then went back to england and when everyone was like "show us what u learned speak some chinese and we will name where u went after those words", and the english sailors were like to eachother"wtf did any of u guys learn any chinese while we there" and they were all like "no that ur job stupid head" so one of the english sailors just yelled "HONG KONG, IT MEANS "WE LOVE ENGLISH PEOPLE"" and everyone was like "wow that some good chinese we naming that place "HONG KONG" and the sailors started cracking up but nobody knew why and the name just stuck

[@elimalinsky7069]

It was called "Mixed" because it was inhabited by various Cushitic, Nilote and Bantu tribes, before the arrival of Semites from South Arabia, who all looked very different from each other and spoke languages very different from each other.

[@loveallah3337]

Yeah

[@yosephberhunegn7490]

Abyssinia is an exonym and Ethiopians have never used the word "Abyssinia" to refer to their country or themselves.

[@adambarral8831]

First of all eritrea used to be part of the Ethiopian empire which Ethiopia wasn't landlocked until the war of independence have started and Eritrea become a independent country and Ethiopia have disbanded their navy which it has a former naval base in Ethiopia that is abandoned till this day

[@ayalqie4587]

Div M hahaha really you think so? Funny almost the entire erterians are decadent from central Ethiopia regions current day of amhara zine ,they fked in medieval era. Specifically all tigrnga speaking are comes from highlands of northern centeral Ethiopian regions.except those who lives in coastal and border with sudan. They are close to Arabs or Sudanese .ask your family two or there generation back.

[@ayalqie4587]

Div M keep laying yourself !! As you are a converted son of fullish propaganda distorted regime ,which has tried much to rewrite a history and tried hard to have its own rehotric history which took pieces from actual history and denied the large portions and some how created distorted citizens like you .But no one can change the histroy and the heardety .when the dictator falls someone will really examine and knows the fact.pls read or check those in below . 1.where was punt were existed? 2.how long extended axsumite? kingdoms and where it was its capital? 3.how could you adopt orthodox relgion? 3.Why we speak and write the same language ,same culture and foods ? 4.who is bahere negash and how it existed? For the record there is no people called Amhara in Ethiopia it just a language and tbe people called ethiopian as there is no people called erterian it just Italian name given to its colony .and Ethiopia had never been slaved for anyone since the begging of the time .you idiot What the fuck you erterian keep saying wet dream .wet dream.wet dream ? we don't have any wet or dry dream for you .you M.F.you had fight and suffered and made other suffered for nonsense reasons which is planted in your blood by British upon protectorate era.your grand father was a patriot Ethiopian shouted motherland with ethiopia or death but your father started a new" utopia" fantasy . That was the time you start hurting your self and made a new 27 years suffering period for the entire regions. Yaa you are right Ethiopia had failed in brutal ,barberian comminist dictator Derge regime whome destroyed its self from inside and let the creation of so called independent ,hundreds of tactics groups .Shabia had one of them had didn't shoot any bullet in Emperor Highlselase time they were just a bandit based in sudan. You said you fight for 30 years bulshitt. The crumbling communist regime who fight everywhere with everyone and arabs created shabia from nowhere ...

[@ayalqie4587]

Div M I tried to read your junk words but there is no a single comprehensive statement or any sensable data, no pint at all .I know that no one went to real form higher education in Erteria ,I thoght at a list a few of you,who scavange in US,canada or Europe can communicate with a few words but I bet I was wrong. I wonder if you are rich or have power I think you will mess the entire Africa but you are a lost people!! Lost because of extreme stubbornness and anarchic mentality ,with the most undaynamic mind . They inserted hate and revenge in your blood and it really burning you alive .for that reasons you are totally dissmanteled and you will be the same for next 50 years.The coutry that can not creat any means for just for 5millions of its inhabitants.wow😁😁😁 I hope may be ,maybe a better generation will come, who are free from propaganda and hate machine. And please stick with the word ASAB OR MISSEWA which were developed by Ethiopia.but we don't need them the entire African nation hve coastal and port but they all are fucken poor ,won't do anything and very happy if developed them.you don't have a gen for brotherhood or frendeship .just keep fleed to others, and keep being a headache to other nations.continue being a burdens to their social welfare ,ironically which make you proud !!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄 you know that leave all historical data artist just try to read a fucken Italian Ethiopian agreement of 1896 which stated that Italy will return erteria (MEREB MELASH ,real name of erteria)to motherhood state of ethiopia at the end .am half erterian but I don't denied the truth .because I READ .you dumb ..

[@ayalqie4587]

Div M .ohh realy? if so ?how come? I don't see anything from your section comments. But anyways for the sake of your minde and your country. first read histroy from real source or historian don't rehearse a gorela war doctrine .try to have open mind.have a civilized communication good bye .

[@ayalqie4587]

Div M I think your IQ was tested in SAWA for propaganda hybrid...yes you are genious ....yaa Serousely I fell sorry for you .I swear to god how could someone thinking shaped like that ? wow just wow. I wish if I seat with you on the table and argue with hard copy videos documents and facts with the entire world watching .or with historian.it help you to be fair just read one or two independent international book .just for you leave me now...

[@nicosmind3]

When I sit in the sun too long I get a bit of abbyssinia

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Little Cripple I think you should say a bit of ithi opia 😂

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

When I sit in the sun I get a bit of Greek

[@newmedearme9406]

the correct name is TOBIYA ጦቢያ in Ge'ez language orthodox church and its meaning is an expensive valuable diamond called ቶፓዝዮን gift for GOD

[@tomraptile804]

If you apply Greek etymology to Abyssinia, too, it becomes the land of no sour cherries.

[@BF-bb5us]

it is not greek abyssinia

[@yazufeleke188]

Now, which makes more sense? A country naming itself by a foreign adjective referring to its inhabitants' skin color and adopting it as their official name, or a foreign country adopting(creating) an adjective from a certain country by associating that country's name with the inhabitants' color? The name Ethiopia does not, as you say, come from a Greek origin, which European historians have labored to create by plastering the two Greek words to create some sort of meaning and lay a western claim to the enigma they found beyond the Red Sea. Ethiopia is named after the first Axumite king Ethiopis. Even if the claim above was a mere myth, it is our myth, and it is more legitimate than the amateur historians who came to our lands pretending to be missionaries. When a falsehood is repeated enough times, and no one bothers to check its merit, it becomes the truth and further intrigue builds upon that same false foundation. This is an Ethiopian history, the pure, the sacred, the enigma, and we have books to refer to, our own. Thanks

[@tsionzele429]

great words. can you please recommend some legit books to refer to. thanks

[@pegeonpera]

Why would they name their country 'Burnt Face'?

[@Laflamme78]

They may not have known the origin of the word, and wanting a more eurpean name, chose what the europeans called them.

[@bradlemmond]

Did you watch the video? It was an exonym from the Greeks.

[@pegeonpera]

Brad Lemmond I was trying to say why would wouldn't they change that name now that they probably know what it means...

[@rodigoduterte9192]

Kaustubh Verma because national border is far more important than just a name, I guess

[@hk7353]

He asking why did they accept this name?

[@zehabeshamedia-7086]

Never in her thousands of years of history, Ethiopia, has ever been called Abyssinia.

[@LegendaryX123]

Really?

[@amanuelafework3271]

habash or al-habash translated from arabic means black/ the black (individual) and is considered deragetory as well.. it has nothing to do with being mixed

[@romeblanchard3419]

How did Limberwisk got its name?

[@BeryAb]

Rome Blanchard Or Bandiaterra

[@meowmeow5591]

there's nothing wrong with paying to support a channel you like, but I wonder, does getting your name featured amongst a large list containing lots of tiny names really persuade anyone? Do any of you who do donate to his patreon do so just to get your name in the video or is that just a cute/meh bonus to contributing to a channel you like? I wonder about people who are really enticed by something like that

[@bekeledaba787]

Ethiopia is the name in Ethiopian language. It might have different meaning in Greece or other languages but it is our country's name. Habesha is the other Ethiopian name. We chose Ethiopia and the meaning is just a given name. It might have some meaning to others but not for us. eg Turkey =turkey Angola =angol (brain) to us.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Bekele Daba hebesha is only the northern tribes don’t lie and say it’s the country name. You guys never had your own names you always named yourselves what foreign nations called you.

[@bekeledaba787]

Only zoomalis know about us jamacad! Tell us about you man.

[@nahomb2784]

Exactly

[@samaale7381]

@Dray Lol we dont speak arabic, we are real and have a rich history unlike raw eating habasha suckers who have to choose between a racist greek name and arabic name. You are fake people who are obsessed with us but cant match our success. We have ruled your little mountain country, the whole of East african coast al the way to Madagascar and even made settlements in Maldives and Sri Lanka. Dont compare us with your poor country

[@thephoenix756]

I'm sorry but Ethiopia derives from the Greek term for a Sudanese kingdom -> Kush; it is Kush that is mentioned 32 times in the Bible.

[@editsonimovie8681]

For those who watch oversimplified, this is the explanation for the image in ww2 #1

[@aysaaa965]

Do Somalia next and don't be like other western ppl talking about pirate's hunger and alshabab! Talk about the rich culture Somalia once had and was the most powerful African country with rich history

[@cinematiccreator716]

@Dray wtf

[@cinematiccreator716]

@@suldaandarood5600 what do you mean?

[@KnightxxArrow]

Sucks that Ethiopia is a landlocked country.

[@johnxvi5538]

Eritrea was part of as but they split an take over 1000km coast line with them that they left us land locked!!

[@vincent109]

In terms of trade, air is very expensive. It would be better for Ethiopia's economy and development if they had access to the sea.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

arada lij as Somali people we don’t want anything to do with anyone else in East Africa we already see what being “united” with Abyssinia done to western Somalia/Ogaden. Tell me how Ogaden benefited with “uniting” with Ethiopia? 1/3 of the population have been killed. How did that benefited the Somalis in Ethiopia?

[@loopes6707]

maxamed wali 🤣🤣 waad fashilmate. Magaca iska baddal next time🙃

[@waterfall9624]

Johnnie Boy eritrea is eritrea and was eritrea ,stop lies u donkey amahara ,eritrea is older than ur AIDS'iopia.

[@benckx8999]

Going from High Volta to Burkina Faso would make for an interesting episode too ;)

[@WilliamGarrow]

The original people called Aithiopians were from the region called Sudan. The Ancient Greeks actually have depicted them on numerous occasions. From statues to literature.

[@thephoenix756]

Thank you! These Ethiopian Nationalists are ignoring this salient fact.

[@amdetsion3256]

@@thephoenix756 Wrong. Ethiopiand have been known as that since the beginning. Sudan was home to Nubian Ethiopians. The source of the Nile has always been called Ethiopia.

[@thephoenix756]

@@amdetsion3256 There is no such thing as "Nubian Ethiopians". The ancient Kushites were Nilo-Saharan speakers, so you can't even align them with the Semitic speaking tribes of Abyssinia. The term Aethiopia was used for the Sudanese kingdom of Kush and its capital was at Meroe.

[@BF-bb5us]

@@thephoenix756 Well no actually it is unclear who Herodotus was referring to and secondly there was no country called Abyssinia it is an exonym. The question is the etymology of the word which Beekes in himself identifies as Pre-Greek.

[@thephoenix756]

@@BF-bb5us It's pretty clear that the Greek and Roman authors were referring to a kingdom immediately to the South of Egypt and identified that its capital was Meroe; the people were also described as tall and very dark -- and Habesh meet none of those characteristics.

[@socktier6334]

Ethiopia r occupying Somali lands where the overwhelming majority r of ethnic Somali.

[@user-uc1xp2kn6d]

It's not a question of ethnicity it's just that the part of Somalia that was colonized was one country and some parts that were not colonized became part of Ethiopia considering some people around those areas were intermarried

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

ጸጋዘአብ መኮንን Somalis never intermarried with Abyssinians as it’s impossible because of the land distance.

[@BW-fz5kf]

MakaveliThaSavage fuck your AIDS ridden colonized Somaliland

[@abdullahimohamed9462]

ጸጋዘአብ መኮንን what!!!. The part that ethiopia occupies was the first state in africa in 1885 led by sayid abdile hassan. His statue is in jigjigga today at the occupied somali lands and in mogadisho. The british gave the land to haile selasie for helping them conquer the dervishes after 30 years of bloody war btn the colonists and the somali dervish state. The reason somalia got into civil war is because of the 77 war which somalia wanted to take back its occupied lands. Even today the people of the region are fighting for their freedom and will soon get their freedom. #freewesternsomalia #freeogaden. Ethiopia is colonial creation which will never succed. Look at ethiopia today on the brink of civil war and the somali region declaring its independency after soo many years. Western invaders are a disease. #freedom for the somali people.

[@adanweliismail4743]

This is a fake map that they included Somaliland(Somali west)and it is not part of Ethiopia but administered like Kashmir,Geographically known as Ogadenia,and it belongs to Somalia.

[@sebatinfo1904]

Totally wrong information

[@kyrgyzjeff4550]

HAHA “Enrage the KZbin gods”! Lmao, dude. Anyways awesome video had no knowledge of Ethiopia’s original name.

[@Lwilight]

I understand this is an old comment but this video is incorrect and another source would be useful.

[@natiasefa4863]

Before the Greece says Aetopiha Ethiopia has gained her name. This name id drived from the word Enkopazyon (እንቆጳዝዮን) then Ethioopagyon (እንቆጳግዮን) which means the gift of gold of the Nile.

[@eritube4874]

I’m from Eritrea 🇪🇷 my background Habesh people Mean the people mixed between South arab Yemen 🇾🇪 with Cush people Habash in English call abassynia The land for Habash people only in north Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Eritrea 🇪🇷 but other part of Ethiopia no call habesh Respect from Habesha Eritrea 🇪🇷

[@fruitsarelife148]

Eri Tube stop talking about our yemeni slaves back then

[@charlesdarwin1265]

You guys are mixed with omotic and Semitic. I could tell because we Somalis are cushitic and habeshas have kinkier hair and look more African in features than us Somalis

[@eritube4874]

Charles Darwin I’m Eritrean my hair and nose straight my skin light

[@charlesdarwin1265]

Eri Tube most habesha ive seen had Afro hair. And a lot have wide noses. Afro nappy hair is rare among Somalis. You guys are more lightskin but look more african. While Somalis are dark and look less african

[@proud2beritrean291]

Eri Tube I am 100% sure you are not Eritrea maybe if you are Eritrea don’t know your history we are are not habesh learn from history

[@amtheone3415]

Tf Haha Habesha means mix? Really bro?😂

[@alexanderlehigh]

Imagine if when Eritrea gained independence, it stole the name of Abyssinia for itself.

[@pragmatistyouth1774]

Alexander Lehigh, we wouldn't have allowed them to steal the name Abyssinia given that they have already robbed us of access to the Red Sea, making us landlocked nation.

[@anatheistsopinion9974]

2:49 You name one person then say « thanks to their suggestion ». That’s proof you’ve used the same prerecorded Patreon message on each of your recent country name videos.