1. RealEthiopia.com at your service
(RealEthiopia/RealEthiopia)

...eady to be found on RealEthiopia.com: background information on Ethiopia covering topics such as history, religion, culture, ethnicity, language, nature and cities, illustrated with enticing images ...

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Orthodox
(Religion/Religion)

The Ethiopia Orthodox Church was established at the beginning of the fourth century, making it one of the oldest established churches in the world.

7. Islam
(Religion/Religion)

Ethiopia has had a long and close relation with Islam. Some of the earliest disciples of the Prophet Mohammad fled to Ethiopia, when they were persecuted in Arabia, and found refuge in Axum, which was

8. Churches in Tana Lake
(History/Heritage)

Wrongly identified as the source of the Blue Nile Lake Tana is one of the two lakes of Ethiopia with historical significance, with thirty-seven islands, twenty of which are home to churches and monast

9. Lalibela
(History/Heritage)

Undoubtedly Lalibela is site of one of the Wonders (the Eighth, you may call it) of the World, Lalibela owes its fame to the incredibly fashioned Lalibela churches, all carved out of red solid volcani

10. Axum
(History/Heritage)

Ethiopian legend has it that the famous Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum is the repository of the Ark of the Covenant. Axum is equally, if not more, mysterious for the seven monolithic stelae fashio

11. The middle Ages
(History/Medieval)

Truely clash of religions has been and still is the shaping factor of our world and societies, and Ethiopia is not an exception from that rule. Jesuits made little headway in 15th century to be banish

12. Lalibela
(History/Ancient)

...act with the Egyptians. Also, by then the Ethiopian church had demonstrated that it was not a proselytizing religion but rather one that by and large restricted its attention to already converted area...

13. Axum's History
(History/Ancient)

... is still shrouded in semi-darkness, it is clear that Axum was and still is the captial of the Christianity religion, reaching it's peak at the reign of Ezana in the 4th century and upheld its positio...

14. Religion
(Category Blog)

It is believed that Ethiopia has a long line of Jewish heritage. Some speculate that the country's Jewish tradition may go as far back as the legendary visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon of