2. Geography: in the horn of Africa
Area: 1.1 million sq.km
Capital city: Addis Ababa
Language: over 80 but Amharic is widely and
only spoken in Ethiopia
Terrain : highland plateau, mountains and dry
lowlands
Climate: temperate in the highlands and very
hot in the low lands
People: special name Habesha
Ethnics: over 80 ethnic groups
Population: 88 million
Religion: Christian 63%, Muslim 33% and the
rest believe in indigenous belief

3. Ethiopian Flag
0 Green – land of fertility and hope
0 Yellow – symbolizes church, peace, natural wealth and
love
0 The star – stands for equality of ethnics and democracy
0 Red – sign of power, faith and blood

4. Calendar
0 Ethiopia uses exceptionally different calendar in the
world.
0 It contains 13 months. Twelve 30 dated months and
one six dated comes once in four months
called, “Puagume”
0 Ethiopia time zone is also quite different from any
nation in the world.
0 A. M starts at six in the morning which is 12a.m in
Ethiopia.
0 P.M starts at six in the evening which is 12p.m in
Ethiopia
0 It is 2004 in Ethiopian calendar which is eight years
difference
0 New Year starts in September

5. Ethiopian Numbers

6. Amharic calendar

7. History
- Ethiopia is one of the oldest empire in the world dated
over 3000 years. Axumite Dynasty and the Obelisks
- Abyssinia was old time name given for Ethiopia
- The first nation out of the middle East to accept
Christianity
- The first nation to accept Islam as religion in the world.
- Ethiopia is mentioned both in Holy Bible and Holy
Quran
- The only African country never been colonized by
Europeans.
- The first country to defeat European colonial nation
Italy in 1896…battle of “Adwa”
- Until 1974 Ethiopia ruled by a king and a queen
- From 1974 to 1989 became a military socialist nation
- Currently parliamentarian multi-party government
system is ruling the nation

8. The Origin of Human Beings
The oldest hominid bones were
found..dated 4.4million years
the fist bipedal human being in
the sequence of evolution .
This archeological finding is
called “Lucy”
It is considered as the symbol of
modern man by scientists.

9. Places to visit
The Eleven Rock Hewn Churches
of Lalibela
- Built in the 13th century by
king Lalibela
- Made out of a single rock
- Curved out of a bedrock
from top-down
- How they were build is still
a mystery to modern
science

10. Bete Georgis

11. Bete Mariam
Front view
Inside view

12. Bete Medhanialem
Back view

13. Bete Amanuel

14. Bete Aba Libanos

15. Bete Gabriel

16. St. Yimrehane Kiristos

17. King Fasil Palace

18. Axum Tsion Churches

19. Mountains for Hiking Bale mountain – 4120m
Semen Mountain – 4620m

20. Abune Yosef – 4260m Gara Muleta – 4405m

21. Amba Alagea – 4000m Baylamatu – 3777m

22. Dalol
The Lowest Sub aerial
volcanic vents on Earth
Dalol = the Danakil
depression… is found in the
great rift valley
- 328ft below sea level
- formed by volcanic eruption
- covered by deadly acidic
liquids and minerals
- formed numerous hot springs

23. Dalol

24. Active Volcano
Ertalea Day time

25. At night

26. -Ethiopia is rich in wild
Wild Life animals, birds and
plants
-Every forest is not free
from animals
-277 species of
animals, unknown
number of birds and
6,600 species of plants
are found in Ethiopia
-- Indigenous animals
like Walia
Ibex, Niala, shy wild
ass and red fox are
found

27. Walia Niala

28. Red Fox
Shy Wild Ass

29. Unknown number of birds

30. Lakes in Ethiopia
Tana
The largest lake in
Ethiopia 32000sq.km
Blue Nile river starts
from here
There are 37 islands
over the lake
Ancient churches built
in the 13th c are found in
the islands

31. Lake Hawasa
Another big lake found
in the city of Hawasa
The lake has many
hippopotamus and
crocodiles
There is large safest
place for swimming
and boating

32. Abiyata and Chamo
Found in the
southern Ethiopia
The two lakes are
separated by a
narrow land
The land never been
covered by water
and is called Bridge
of God
lots of crocies and
hippos

33. Lake Langano
Found in southern
part of ethiopia
Always looks brown
The best place to
enjoy on the beach
It is free from any
dangerous animal
so people swim but
very deep

34. Lake Aniyata

35. •Ethiopia and Coffee
Coffee was first found in Ethiopia in a place called Kaffa and the
name derived from the place.
Coffee and Ethiopians' life has strongly bounded to each other.
Coffee ceremony is very important part in a social life and it is the
first thing people invite guests at home.
Coffee is the major exporting item for the nation.
Comparing to other countries it is the cheapest to invite someone.
A cup of coffee is less than a 500 won on a coffee shop.

36. Coffee Ceremony

37. Ethnic groups
0 Ethiopia has over 80 ethnic groups.
0 Some of the minorities have a population of not more than
10,000 people.
0 The groups have their own distinct language and culture.
0 Some ethnic groups can be identified even physically.
0 Some of the ethnic members are very far from the city may
not know about car, tv or radio…

38. Amhara

39. Oromo

40. Tigire

41. Gambela

42. People from Central Par t

43. Major Festivals Epiphany
Based on the a verse Luk.3:21 “… Jesus also being baptized…”
People in white accompany the Ark of the covenant to a special tent.
There are church songs full of spiritual dances with different sort of beautiful
costumes.
It goes for 3 days

44. Ark of the Covenant

46. The Finding of the Holy Cross
The right side of Holy Cross is found in Ethiopia
The ceremony lasts for half a day
It’s a national holiday
Family or community size celebration goes on the whole night.
Singing, dancing, drinking and lots of fun

47. Nations and Nationalities Day

50. Icons of Ethiopia (1855 - 1869)
0 United Ethiopia
0 The most warrior king
0 Fought throughout his life
0 Finally fought against United
kingdom and was defeated
0 Committed suicide with his
own gun at the battle of
Mekdela
0 The first king who built a
paid army.
0 Was keen to modernization
and unity.
King Tewodros

51. Menelik II (1889 - 1913)
He made the current shape of
Ethiopia including Eretria
he was clever on foreign diplomacy
he introduced modernization
like water
pipe, train, car, bicycle, telephone…
Fought against colonization with
Italy and won the war at the battle
of Adwa

52. King Haile Silasie

53. Ras Teferi
Rasta man Bob Marley

54. Tilahun Gessesse
Aster Aweke

55. Athletics
Abebe Bikila
Derartu Tulu

56. Haile Gebre Silasie
- Long distance and road
runner
- Broke 61 National
records and 27 world
records.
- Considered one of the
greatest distance runner
in world history
- recently joined the
Marathon and started
breaking records in
Berlin

57. Q &A?