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Zip Facts about Ethiopia:
- Ethiopia is the only country in Africa with its own alphabet which consists of 209 symbols and 25 letter variants
- Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country. Its capital, Addis Ababa, means “new flower” in Amharic
- Ethiopians mark time in a slightly different way than most of the world, they are the only country that follow the Julian calendar, 12 months of 30 days and a 13th month of 5 or 6 days, and roughly 7.5 years behind the Gregorian calendar. Time is measured from when the sun rises, so 6 am would be 12 o’clock, and noon and midnight are 6:00 in Ethiopia
- Only two nations in the world have never been colonized, Russia and Ethiopia. Ethiopia was briefly occupied by Italy from 1936 to 1941
- Coffee was discovered in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia
Desta Hagos, the first Ethiopian woman to have a solo art exhibition
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Link to Recipe: https://theworldfrommykitchen.wordpress.com/ethiopia/
Link to Map: https://theworldfrommykitchen.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/recipemap-africa.pdf
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