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Today approx. 77 million people live in the Democratic Federal Republic of Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa in the east of the continent. The country can look back on a thousand-year-old history. Not without reason is it considered to be the cradle of humanity. And as the country of origin of coffee. No wonder that the Ethiopian foreign trade consists mainly of the export of coffee. But in spite of that, countless people in Ethiopia still live under inhumane conditions, are dying of hunger or otherwise easily treated diseases.
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Africa’s highest region, bordered by Eritrea, Kenya, the Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti, can be subdivided into three climatic zones. Almost 80 million people live here in about 90 different ethnic groups. Far in excess of 70 languages are spoken. After all, Ethiopia is about three times the size of Germany. But due to the lack of infrastructure, especially the rural population is more or less cut off from the outside world.
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Ethiopia’s cultural diversity is captivating. In particular visual art. It is closely linked to the country’s history and has a long tradition. The same applies to arts and crafts: pottery and weaving have been a source wonder in Ethiopia for centuries. But the real cultural soul of Ethiopia is its music, which is so different from the familiar rhythms of West Africa. Singer-poets wander through the huge country and preserve the musical culture
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Approx. 3.5 millions years ago Ethiopia was the first country in the world to be settled. Considerably earlier than in our latitudes, since about 330 AD, the Christian belief developed into a state religion.
In the course of colonialism Ethiopia remained the only country that could never be completely conquered. The successful resistance to the Italian invaders in 1896 became a firm element of the Ethiopian feeling of national identity. Today Ethiopia is a federal republic and in 1994 it received a German-style constitution.
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