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Chapters: Berber People. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ethiopia - The Book of Aksum, a Ge'ez chronicle compiled in the 15th century, states that the Ge'ez name , Ethiopia, is derived from "'Ityopp'is" a son (unmentioned in the Bible) of Cush, son of Ham, who according to legend founded the city of Axum. Pliny the Elder similarly follows the tradition that the nation took its name from someone named Aethiops. Modern scholars would not accept such ideas of eponymous originators and derive the Ge'ez name and its English cognate from the Greek word , Aithiopia, from , Aithiops, an Ethiopian, derived in turn from Greek words meaning "of burned face". The geographical name, in its Greek form , indeed first appears in Classical sources, in which it refers to the regions south of Egypt and Libya, so to what we would call Sub-Saharan Africa. It appears twice in the Iliad and three times in the Odyssey. The Greek historian Herodotus specifically uses it for all the lands south of Egypt, so including Sudan and (in principle) modern Ethiopia. The name Ethiopia also occurs in many translations of the Old Testament, but there it has the above mentioned extended Greek meaning, for the Hebrew texts themselves in reality have in all such text places Kush, which refers foremost to Nubia / Sudan. In the (Greek) New Testament, however, the Greek term Aithiops, an Ethiopian, does occur, referring to a servant of Candace or Kentakes, so to an inhabitant of the Kingdom of Meroe. This kingdom later was conquered by the Kingdom of Axum. It is thus not surprising that the earliest attested use in the region itself is as a Christianized name for the Kingdom of Aksum in the 4th century, in stone inscriptions of King Ezana. In English and generally outside Ethiopia, the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=187749