Talk:Abyssinia

Pausanias

I considered adding the following, but it seems that the knowledge transmitted by the ancient source is so meager, that it is pointless as it stands:

Pausanias mentioned a with some uncertainty Abasa as an island in or near the red sea, next to the land of Seres in which a kind of silk is produced.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 2, chapter 26 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.26 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>

trespassers william (talk) 20:32, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Trying to assign everything as Greek doesn’t work here Rania212 (talk) 23:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Article Review: Needs Revision

This article needs significant revision to justify its existence against the already-extant article, Habesha. If this article is to discuss the historical region in Africa, then it should explore some of the following topics:

• Use of term "Habasha"/"Habash" in Arabic literature - to whom and to which areas did these terms historically refer, how might these groups have varied depending on authors (African muslims living in Bilad al-Sudan, East Africa, etc. or Middle Eastern muslims living in Dar al-Islam, etc)
• Use of term "Abyssinian" and "Abyssinia" in medieval and early-modern Christendom, and/or early-modern Europe—how did they refer to and think about "Abyssinia".
• Use of the term by historic Ethiopians, if such use existed.
• Distinctions drawn historically by various groups between the use of the term "Abyssinia", "Ethiopia", etc.

These topics can distinguish this article better from an article on the term "Habesha", which could then naturally be focused more on the modern use of the term as a pan-ethnic label by Ethiopians, Eritreans, and their diaspora. HiddenHistoryPedia (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2026 (UTC)