ABYSSINIA

ăbˌĭsĭnˈēyə: see Ethiopia.

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books on: Abyssinia  - 2803 results

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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Book by Samuel Johnson; Ginn, 1895
Subjects: Fiction
RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON. LL.D...the story of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. But one event in the authors life...introduce the reader to the Prince of Abyssinia and his companions, hoping that this...
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The British Defence of Egypt, 1935-1940: Conflict and Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean
Book by Steven Morewood; Frank Cass, 2005
Subjects: Egypt--History, Military--20th Century, Egypt--History--British Occupation, 1882-1936, Great Britain--Military Policy, Great Britain--Relations--Italy, Italy--Relations--Great Britain
...figured in the crises of the period over Abyssinia, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Poland...stopped in his empire-building at the Abyssinian hurdle. Thereafter, as Nazi Germany...of Egypt and the onset of the Italo-Abyssinian Emergency 24 The...
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Facing the Dictators: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon
Book by Anthony Eden; Houghton Mifflin, 1962
Subjects: Eden, Anthony--Earl Of Avon--1897---Views On Foreign Relations, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1910-1936, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1936-1945
...Benes, April 1935 183 11. Abyssinia Prelude, November 1934-May 1935 213...Rhineland, 1931 16 - 17 Abyssinia 212 Spain 444...
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Prelude to World War II
Book by Gaetano Salvemini; Gollancz, 1953
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The League of Nations: Its Life and Times, 1920-1946
Book by F. S. Northedge; Holmes & Meier, 1986
Subjects: League Of Nations--History
...mandates system 192 10 The Abyssinian disaster 221 11 The final...it. Manchuria exposed the fallacy of that presumption. Abyssinia was, however, as Northedge rightly claims, the decisive...
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journal articles on: Abyssinia  - 124 results

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Understanding Abyssinian Immigrants in the U.S.: Socio-Cultural Background and Contemporary Experiences
Journal article by Amanuel A. Teklemariam; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 29, 2005
Subjects: Immigrants--Economic aspects, Immigrants--Social aspects, United States--Demographic aspects, United States--Social aspects
Understanding Abyssinian Immigrants in the U.S.: Socio-Cultural...cultural backgrounds, specifically Abyssinians (Eritreans and Ethiopians), to gain...The reviewed literature shows that Abyssinian immigrants bring non-Western cultural...
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Hyenas and Humans in the Horn of Africa
Journal article by Daniel W. Gade; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Cannibalism, Cannibalism (Human behavior), Human-animal relationships--Influence, Hyenas--Influence
...exaggeration, that "they were a plague in Abyssinia in every situation, both in the city...surname, Brandao, to avoid insulting Abyssinians by using "Lobo," (also the Portuguese...Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the Years 1520-1527. Hakluyt...
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Sir Wilfred Thesiger 1910-2003
Journal article by Alexander Maitland; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 170, 2004
Subjects: Explorers, Thesiger, Wilfred Patrick
...explorers of the past, including Bruce in Abyssinia; Burton and Speke in East Arica; Palgrave...upbringing in Ethiopia (then known as Abyssinia). The eldest of four brothers, he was...savagery and colour, originated in his Abyssinian childhood. He remembered, aged three...
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The Foreign Office and Anglo-Italian Involvement in the Red Sea and Arabia, 1925-28
Journal article by Christian W.E. Tripodi; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula--International relations, British foreign relations--Political aspects, Italian foreign relations--Political aspects, Red Sea--International relations
...between the two countries in the Balkans, Abyssinia, and the Red Sea region. Economic factors...activity in Albania in 1925 and 1926. In Abyssinia during the same period, however, the...ongoing Anglo-Italian cooperation in Abyssinia. Although ostensibly concerned with building...
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Mapping the UN-League of Nations Analogy: Are There Still Lessons to Be Learned from the League?
Journal article by Alexandru Grigorescu; Global Governance, Vol. 11, 2005
...ineffectiveness after Italys invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. In March 2003, a few weeks before...lesson the failure of the League in the Abyssinian crisis is as true today, at the start...in the past, just as Italy had invaded Abyssinia in 1935 and Germany had invaded Austria...
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magazine articles on: Abyssinia  - 110 results

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Great Scot
Magazine article by Miles Bredin; Geographical, Vol. 72, March 2000
Subjects: Bruce, James--Biography, Nile River--Research, Physical geography--Africa, Rivers--Africa, Watersheds--Africa
...that Bruce had never actually gone to Abyssinia at all. Bruces refusal to publish his...Bruces travel problems. On the way to Abyssinia he had been shipwrecked once, ambushed...tarmac. Dangerous days On arriving in Abyssinia, Bruce bought a black horse and called...
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When Italy Invaded Ethiopia ... 70 Years Ago
Magazine article by Clayton Goodwin; New African, October 2005
Subjects: Black History Month, Black history--Analysis, Blacks--Analysis, Blacks--History, Ethiopia--Discovery and exploration, Ethiopia--History, Italy--International relations
...Italians invaded Ethiopia (known then as Abyssinia)--just seven years after the two countries...died that day and another began. After "Abyssinia", the "old certainties" no longer appeared...country. People who had never heard of Abyssinia previously were now aware of the aggression...
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Interview with the Ethiopian Ambassador - Abyssinian History
Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 17, November 2002
Subjects: Ethiopia, Ethiopian history
Interview with the Ethiopian Ambassador - Abyssinian History. The history of Ethiopia, known to many as Abyssinia, extends back to ancient times and remains partly unknown. Anthropologists believe that East Africas Great Rift Valley is the...
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No Simple Purveyor of News: George Steer and Guernica: Paul Preston Remembers the Journalist and Basque Sympathizer Who Broke the News of the Bombing of Guernica, and Whose Impassioned Reports from the Front in the Spanish Civil War Did Much to Draw the Attention of the World to the Conflict
Magazine article by Paul Preston; History Today, Vol. 57, May 2007
Subjects: Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--Media coverage, Steer, George Lowther--Management, War correspondents--Management
...thoroughly been carried out by the Italians in Abyssinia. Even in Spain, the bombing of Guernica...had witnessed the horrors of bombing in Abyssinia, described what was done at Durango as...ensured that he would be expelled from Abyssinia a week after the victorious forces of...
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Arabian Sands
Magazine article by Geordie Torr; Geographical, Vol. 75, December 2003
Subjects: Arabian Sands (Book)
...Following an expedition through the hostile Danakil country of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia) and active service in the SAS, Thesiger spent the final year of the Second World War as an adviser in Abyssinia. Frustrated and unhappy with this sedentary life, he resigned...
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newspaper articles on: Abyssinia  - 78 results

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Out & About
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 16, 2005
Out About. Byline: LIBBY NORMAN;DAMIAN KELLEHER Top 5 Childrens Events CIRCUS ABYSSINIA No less than 18 Ethiopian acrobats, contortionists, jugglers and musicians fly into action in this spectacular premiere for the...
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After the Nightmare Years, the Awakening of Ethiopia
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 16, 1996
...PREST WHEN the subject of hol-idays comes round at your next candlelit supper, impress your friends with tales of Old Abyssinia. As a dinner-party gambit Ethiopia beats the three-day delays at Athens hands down. Of course, incredulous questions about...
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The Weekly Dish
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 28, 2003
...hed be quite happy to do without. The Abyssinia precedent A wonderful reminiscence...France, bungled Mussolinis conquest of Abyssinia. Deedes was alive and kicking as a journalist...when Mussolini launched his attack on Abyssinia. Britains eagerness to set in motion...
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Wars I Have Been in - and Kept out Of
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 7, 2006
...jail for doing so. Then the Italians invaded Abyssinia. I had no idea where Abyssinia was, or what the conflict was all about. It...friends taking leave of one another would say Abyssinia, meaning Ill be seeing you. And Mussolini, the...
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A Look Back in Wonder to Little Mary's Time Capsule; AUCTION REVEALS SECRET TREASURES IN THE HOME OF A RECLUSE
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 2, 1996
...GRAHAM OGILVY IT WAS the year Edward VIII abdicated, Hitler invaded the Rhineland, Mussolinis Fascist troops stormed into Abyssinia, civil war erupted in Spain - and the clocks stopped in a Scottish country mansion with the death of the man of the house...
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encyclopedia articles on: Abyssinia  - 5 results

 
 
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Abyssinia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABYSSINIA ab isin ey : see Ethiopia . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Beke, Charles Tilstone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...languages and dialects. He wrote Origines Biblicae (1834), The Sources of the Nile (1860), and The British Captives in Abyssinia (1865). His Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian appeared posthumously, and his widow published (1874) a summary...
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Rassam, Hormuzd
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he identified and partially excavated the site of Sippar. He wrote Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia (1869) and Asshur and the Land of Nimrod (1897). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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Slavery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...This was supplemented by the even more significant Brussels Act of 1890, to which 18 states were signatory. The emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) was unable to prevent traffic from that land to Arabia, and a brisk trade went on over the Red Sea. International...
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Ethiopia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...according to ancient Egyptian texts. The Egyptian name for Ethiopians was Habashat, which is the probable origin of the name Abyssinia. According to tradition, the Ethiopian kingdom was founded (10th cent. b.c.) by Solomons first son, Menelik I, whom the queen...


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