Ethiopia (ēthēō´pēə), officially Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, republic (2005 est. 73,053,000), 471,776 sq mi (1,221,900 sq km), NE Africa. It borders on Eritrea in the north, on Djibouti in the northeast, on Somalia in the east and southeast, on Kenya in the south, and on South Sudan and Sudan in the west. Is the capital and largest city.

Jul 20, 2006 - For Emma, a creation better than a book. Preferred Citation: Marcus, Harold G. A History of Ethiopia. Berkeley: University of California. Press, c1994 1994. For Emma, a creation better than a book. I began writing this book in January 1986, and I. The book is about Ethiopia, and its boundaries in the past. In his now-classic book, The Oromo of Ethiopia 1570–1850: A History,1 Mo- hammed Hassen stated that incontrovertible historical evidence attested to the presence of settled agricultural Oromo communities within the territories of the medieval Christian kingdom of Ethiopia. The statement contradicted a standard narrative.

Land and People Ethiopia falls into four main geographic regions from west to east—the Ethiopian Plateau, the Great Rift Valley, the Somali Plateau, and the Ogaden Plateau. The Ethiopian Plateau, which is fringed in the west by the Sudan lowlands (made up of savanna and forests), includes more than half the country.

It is generally 5,000 to 6,000 ft (1,524–1,829 m) high but reaches much loftier heights, including Ras Dashen (15,158 ft/4,620 m), the highest point in Ethiopia. The plateau slopes gently from east to west and is cut by numerous deep valleys. The Blue Nile (in Ethiopia called the Abbai or Abbay) flows through the center of the plateau from its source, Lake Tana, Ethiopia's largest lake. The Great Rift Valley (which in its entirety runs from SW Asia to E central Africa) traverses the country from northeast to southwest and contains the Danakil Desert in the north and several large lakes in the south. Echols Corn Popper Model 490 Manual Transmission on this page. The Somali Plateau is generally not as high as the Ethiopian Plateau, but in the Mendebo Mts. It attains heights of more than 14,000 ft (4,267 m). The Awash, Ethiopia's only navigable river, drains the central part of the plateau.