The ancient name for the country now called Ethiopia, used historically in European literature and geography.
From Greek 'Abyssinia,' possibly derived from Arabic 'al-ḥabasha' (Abyssinia), which may come from Ge'ez 'ḥabaś' (mixed race); the name was used by Greek geographers for highland kingdoms in the Horn of Africa.
Ethiopia was called Abyssinia until 1931, and the name's origin is mysterious—it might come from a word meaning 'mixed race' because the highland kingdom had mixed Semitic and Cushitic populations!
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