1. Clothing: Muslims
(Culture/Costumes)

Costumes are mainly jalabiya, light, loose, usually white dresses, in some areas blouses and skirts accompanied by shawls covering the shoulders and heads The Muslim religious costumes seem

2. Harar
(Cities/Harar)

Harar, locaed about 523 kilometers (324 miles) from Addis Ababa, in many aspects stands out in historical splendour, considering modern Ethiopian history, as we will further entail, and has also manag

3. Gondar
(Cities/Gondar)

...est settlement in the country, eventually serving as an important administrative, commercial, religious and cultural center and was noted for the skill of its many craftsmen (Source: ETTE, Spectrum Gu...

4. Bahir Dar
(Cities/Bahir dar)

...lometer (1,860 square mile) surface, twenty of which shelter churches and monasteries both historically and culturally significant as the repository of innumerable treasures. A particularly interes...

5. Awassa
(Cities/Awassa)

...ures coffee plantations, fruit groves and the Bale Mountains rising in the east. The town is home to an agricultural research station. The recently established Debub (Southern) University has increase...

6. Arba Minch
(Cities/Arba minch)

Arba Minch and it's surrounding is where the nature shows all it's glory, where you will find two of the countrys greatest rift valley lakes situated close to each other and shaping the neck of land b

7. Economy
(Government and politics/Economy)

...based on agriculture, which is undertaken with a primitive farming system, mostly for subsistence. The agricultural sector accounts for 85% of the total employment, more than half of the country?s GD...

8. Ethiopian languages
(Language/Language)

The major languages being Amharic, Tigriňňa, Oromiňňa, Guaragiňňa, Somali, Arabic, English, over 80 different languages, with up to 200 different dialects are spoken, with some at extinction l

9. Nilo-Saharan
(Ethnic diversity/Ethnic diversity)

The Nilo-Saharan groups are, to some extent, agriculturalists. The Nilo-Saharan groups are, to some extent, agriculturalists. But there also are hunters and cattle breeders. They are generall

10. Omotic
(Ethnic diversity/Ethnic diversity)

...were traditionally organized into small kingdoms, notably those of Kaffa and Janjero. Mainly agriculturalists, they in general still adhere to a traditional animist faith. Of the Omotic spe...

11. Cushitic
(Ethnic diversity/Ethnic diversity)

... Sidama (further divided into the Alaba, Derasa, Hadiya, Kambata and the Sidama proper) also are mainly agriculturalists. Like their northern Semitic counterparts they cultivate different crops, in ad...

12. Semitic
(Ethnic diversity/Ethnic diversity)

..., respectively, and practice mainly agriculture. The Amharas and the Tigreans are in the main agricultural communities cultivating different crops, depending on the topography and the climat...

13. Clothing: Christians
(Culture/Costumes)

Within christianity, traditional costumes are most elaborate and colorful, including dresses, capes, hats, umbrellas. Within christianity, traditional costumes are most elaborate and colorful

14. Clothing: Lowlanders
(Culture/Costumes)

Lowlands are warm and hot, which duely shape the way the population dresses, light dressing often mini-skirts of sorts, and at some areas ultra-light dressing or semi-naked or even naked with straws c

15. Clothing: Highlanders
(Culture/Costumes)

Place of origin indeed entails the culture of costumes where we see the highlanders as contrary to the lowlanders, bear costumes more cladly and based on cotton. The materials employed can be

16. Lalibela
(History/Ancient)

...ghlands. Known as the Zagwe and based in the Agew district of Lasta, it developed naturally out of the long cultural and political contact between Cushitic- and Semitic-speaking peoples in the norther...

17. Ethnic diversity
(Category Blog)

...ified in the main by the number of languages (including about 200 dialects). But there are also overlaps of cultural and religious values among different ethnic groups. The ethnic groups inhabiting ...

18. Economy
(Category Blog)

...y is based on agriculture, accounting for half of GDP, 60% of exports, and 80% of total employment. The agricultural sector suffers from frequent drought and poor cultivation practices. Coffee is crit...

19. Costumes
(Category Blog)

Often times costumes categorization aligns to cultural affinity. Whichever way one looks at, the costumes are as "varied, colorful and interesting as the population itself, reflecting ancient and mode

20. Culture
(Section List)

...ince there are groups that have closer affinity to each other than others. Common to a good majority of the cultural groups is their love of ornamentation ruled by a natural affinity for beauty. A gro...