Top 10 Interesting Facts About Ethiopia
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Welcome back everyone and this is an Article that many of you have been asking us to do for a while especially those of you who kind of recently subscribed to the channel you also been asking for us to do more videos about Africa so here it is we're jumping into facts about Ethiopia starting at fact.
1 Let's look at the federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia as it's officially known as it's a landlocked country on what is called the Horn of Africa and its capital city is Addis Ababa when you go to Ethiopia you'll see green hills and mountains that surround mostly rural agricultural communities as well as you'll see if the OBS lake tana which is the source of the Blue Nile it has a very rich Christian tradition also infused into the country with 114 point nine million people at the time of filming this episode if you open is one of the most highly populated countries in all of Africa you see it's second only to the country of Nigeria now the next is to talk about is if the opions believe that the Ark of the Covenant which is a legendary relic that is said to hold the Ten Commandments is actually inside of a church in Ethiopia.
2 Ethiopia only one specially chosen Guardian has access to this art and even he is not allowed to look at it to confirm that it actually is there for those of you who are not familiar with the religious implications of the Ark of the Covenant it was very instrumental to ancient Israel creation of the significance of the Ark of the Covenant is all documented in the Old Testament of the Bible now the next thing to note is that Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country Ethiopia is the only African country that has never been colonized that's a pretty amazing accomplishment because you see the Italians they actually tried to colonize Ethiopia in 1935 and they succeeded in militarily occupying Ethiopia.
3 Ethiopia or six years but if yo P enforces were fighting the whole time and the entire country was never fully brought under trol if he opens yeah they're resilient they do not give up so some Ethiopians to this day even jokingly say this we waited until they had built us railways and nice buildings and then kicked them out all in reference to the Italians that tried to colonize the country from there let's move on to fact.
4 On top of being Africa's oldest independent country Ethiopia is one of the world's oldest countries period throughout history its exact borders also have changed though but you see the present territory that we now know as Ethiopia was consolidated during the 19th and 20th centuries as European nations in crouched on Ethiopia's historical territory now this next one is a very fascinating interesting fact several archaeological findings in Ethiopia's afar region suggest that the country may be where human life actually started from so going back to the year 1972 a man by the name of Donald Johanson as well as Tim D white discovered Lucy and Lucy is a hominid skeleton who was dated by scientists to be 3.2 million years old then also Rd also from the afar region was discovered and was dated to be 4.4 million years old so these and several other archeological findings lead people to believe.
5 Ethiopia was the center of where it all began when it came to human life so guys we took a look at five facts about if you'll be us so far we got five more to go now if you're enjoying this episode so far I'd be sure leave a like and also if this your first time here definitely facts go ahead and hit a subscribe button ring that bell we're on our road to 1 million subscribers so help us on our journey as well as you get to learn about our world the different countries cultures people and religion every single day so definitely I don't want you to miss any of our episodes coming up but with that said let's move on to fact.
6 Let's talk about Ethiopian cooking and foods and all that good stuff you see if you've been cooking is some of the tastiest and healthiest food out there now I love if you've been food by the way I know this before I think in a video that I like India it's like a soft flatbread that you can like rip and dip into different things and unlike many other African countries though if yo peon is very vegetarian-friendly that's one reason why I liked the food I love my meats but from time to time I just love to dabble in vegetarian food you know bottom line is I just like food Evo Pia offers that another reason to love the country so I did mention that it is very vegetarian friendly but this is really because most Ethiopians follow a particular belief of Orthodox Christianity that prohibits the eating of any animal products on Wednesdays and Fridays so of course a compensate for that the food has to be non animal-based so moving on now to fact.
7 Ethiopia is a country that is full of vibrant colorful festivals now the biggest festival over in Ethiopia is called Tim khat now this is an annual festival that honors the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River now today priests they move the replicas of the Ark of the Covenant from each church and they go and march to the nearest large body of water and that's where a communal baptism actually happens there's a lot of videos and pictures of this it's a really remarkable experience next I want to talk a little bit about the capital city Addis Ababa.
8 The disa Baba is the home of the African Union it's also the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and also it sits at an altitude of 2,000 450 meters and it's the world's fourth highest capital city now the name Addis Ababa beautiful name and you see it translates to new flower in the Amharic language did you also know that the people of Ethiopia often point out that Ethiopia is not the original name for the country Ethiopia.
9 Ethiopia is actually a relatively new name for the region now the name Abyssinia was the former name for the region and that name was said to come from the Amharic word hobbits or also the Arabic word Habashi meaning mixture and this is all in reference to the different races that lived in the region and the final fact I want to share in this episode about Ethiopia is that if yo pia has the second most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in all of Africa the ninth sites are AXA fossil Gaby.
10 Haruko Khanh so cultural landscape lower valley of the awash lower valley of the Omo rock hewn churches simian National Park as well as TIA and just like that we come to the end of this episode this was a brief look at ten surprising and interesting facts about hit the Opia I really hope you guys enjoyed this one and learn something new I know this is a very fascinating country a lot of history and culture in there like I didn't even scratch the surface yet.
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