Meaning of Æthiopia | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic spelling of Ethiopia (“a broad region of eastern Africa”).

alt-of, archaic, historical

Examples

“Finding, however, that this was not likely soon to take⟳ place⟳, he determined to pass⟳ the intermediate time in exploring Egypt and the country above the Cataracts, and was thus enabled to perform⟳ two very arduous and interesting journies into the ancient Æthiopia; one of them along the banks of the Nile, from Assouan to Dar El Mahass on the frontiers of Dongola, in the months of February and March⟳ 1813, during which he discovered many remains of ancient Egyptian and Nubian architecture, with Greek inscriptions, such as are found in the temples of Philæ; — the other, between March⟳ and July, in the following year, through Nubia to Souakim and Djedda.”

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