Print of hand colored steel engraving titled Abyssinie“.

Author A. M. Perrot.

Engraved by unknown.

From Dictionnaire universel Geographie moderne, description physique, politique et historique de tous les lieux de la terre“ by A. M. Perrot and M. Alex. Aragon. Paris. 1837.

Ethiopia, the modern nation, historically known as Abyssinia.

Ethiopia officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 90 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa. Some of the oldest evidence for anatomically modern humans has been found in Ethiopia, which is widely considered the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond. According to linguists, the first Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations settled in the Horn region during the ensuing Neolithic era. Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history. During the first centuries AD the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilization in the region. followed by Abyssinia circa 1137.

Approx. image size 18, 8 x 14, 3/26, 5 x 17, 3 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.