abyssinia

Well, mine has Abyssinia on it, in a nice shade of pink, and a large chunks of inland Africa are just this big old white expanse with some pictures of funky looking lions.

Even more apropos of nothing: it’s also used in a famous episode of M A S*H, “Abyssinia, Henry”.

The Wikipedia page has some info on that: > Umar converted to Islam in 616, one year after the Migration to Abyssinia.

"Si non e vero, e ben trovato", as they used to say in Abyssinia.

Calling Kaldi (if he did exist) Ethiopian is historical nonsense considering that Ethiopia didn’t exist back then, and the kingdom before it, Abyssinia, didn’t rule the kingdom of Kaffa where coffee is originally from.

He’s so toxic in modern Ethiopia both Amhara and Oromo nationalists say that he’s from the other ethnicity, he’s mostly worshipped by Caribbean and west Africans who don’t know anything about Ethiopia or Abyssinia.

And it also has "Italian Somaliland" and "Abyssinia" instead of "Somalia" and "Ethiopia".

The Axis countries were trying to acquire a similar empire at a later date, and therefore had to create a racial enemy out of those they wanted to conquer; Italy in Abyssinia, and Germany against the slavic peoples to the east.

Abyssinia, Spain, China, Austria, Czechoslovakia — the long series of crimes and aggressions had simply slid past their consciousness or were dimly noted as quarrels occurring among foreigners and “not our business.” One can gauge the general ignorance from the fact that the ordinary Englishman thought of “Fascism” as an exclusively Italian thing and was bewildered when the same word was applied to Germany.

[...] > Khaki-colored uniforms were used officially by British troops for the first time during the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia, when Indian troops traveled to Ethiopia.[8] Subsequently, the British Army adopted khaki for colonial campaign dress and it was used in the Mahdist War (1884–89) and Second Boer War (1899–1902).

Even more apropos of nothing: it’s also used in a famous episode of M A S*H, “Abyssinia, Henry”.

"Si non e vero, e ben trovato", as they used to say in Abyssinia.

And it also has "Italian Somaliland" and "Abyssinia" instead of "Somalia" and "Ethiopia".

Abyssinia, Spain, China, Austria, Czechoslovakia — the long series of crimes and aggressions had simply slid past their consciousness or were dimly noted as quarrels occurring among foreigners and “not our business.” One can gauge the general ignorance from the fact that the ordinary Englishman thought of “Fascism” as an exclusively Italian thing and was bewildered when the same word was applied to Germany.

The Wikipedia page has some info on that: > Umar converted to Islam in 616, one year after the Migration to Abyssinia.

Calling Kaldi (if he did exist) Ethiopian is historical nonsense considering that Ethiopia didn’t exist back then, and the kingdom before it, Abyssinia, didn’t rule the kingdom of Kaffa where coffee is originally from.

He’s so toxic in modern Ethiopia both Amhara and Oromo nationalists say that he’s from the other ethnicity, he’s mostly worshipped by Caribbean and west Africans who don’t know anything about Ethiopia or Abyssinia.