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    Ancient Aethiopia, (Greek: Αἰθιοπία, romanized: Aithiopía; also known as Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference...
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    Ethiopia (redirect from Æthiopia)
    In Greco-Roman epigraphs, Aethiopia was a specific toponym for ancient Nubia. At least as early as c. 850, the name Aethiopia also occurs in many translations...
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    -fjuːs/; Ancient Greek: Κηφεύς Kepheús) was the name of two rulers of Aethiopia, grandfather and grandson. Cepheus was the son of either Belus, Agenor...
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    Scythia) to very dark (associated with populations from sub-Saharan Africa (Aethiopia). People described with words meaning "black", or as Aethiopes, are occasionally...
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    Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια Kassiépeia), a figure in Greek mythology, was Queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus. She was arrogant and vain, characteristics that...
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    eccl., 2, 40), Matthias first preached the Gospel in Judaea, then in Aethiopia (by the region of Colchis, now in modern-day Georgia) and was crucified...
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    romanized: Androméda or Ἀνδρομέδη, Andromédē) is the daughter of Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia, and his wife, Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia boasts that she (or Andromeda)...
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  • Aethiopia is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species: Aethiopia elongata Aurivillius, 1911 Aethiopia lesnei Breuning...
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  • Elaea or Elaia (Greek: Ελαία) is an ancient harbor town on the African coast of the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden. The harbor is mentioned by Strabo (xvi...
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    corocotta, crocuta, or leucrocotta is a mythical dog-wolf of India or Aethiopia, linked to the hyena and said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs. Strabo...
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    mountains. On the way back to Seriphos, Perseus stopped in the kingdom of Aethiopia. This mythical Ethiopia was ruled by King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia...
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    Memnon (/ˈmɛmnən/; Ancient Greek: Μέμνων means 'resolute') was a king of Aethiopia and son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost...
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  • Lepidochrysops aethiopia is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Malawi, Zambia and northern Mozambique. The habitat consists of deciduous...
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  • Cush is identified in the Bible with the Kingdom of Kush or ancient Aethiopia. The Cushitic languages are named after Cush. Cush is a Hebrew name that...
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  • Aethiopia lineolata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1939. BioLib.cz - Aethiopia. Retrieved...
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  • Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη), sometimes called Arsinoe Epidires, was an ancient city of the Avalitæ, at Dire promontory in Eritrea, north of Berenice...
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    was located at Meroë, during which time it was known by the Greeks as Aethiopia. From the third century BC to the third century AD, northern Nubia would...
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  • Aethiopia paratanganjicae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1971. BioLib.cz - Aethiopia. Retrieved...
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    that depicts Matthew the Apostle and his story regarding King Eglypus of Aethiopia and his sons. It shows how Matthew is leading them away from the demon...
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    (such as the yale) within a passage on Aethiopia. But he also described the crocotta and the mantichora of Aethiopia together, and while the crocotta imitated...
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  • Aethiopia tanganjicae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1964. BioLib.cz - Aethiopia. Retrieved...
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  • Aethiopia lesnei is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1948. BioLib.cz - Aethiopia. Retrieved...
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  • Aethiopia rufescens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1913. BioLib.cz - Aethiopia...
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    recruited the nine Muses, along with the satyrs, while passing through Aethiopia, before embarking on a tour of all Asia and Europe, teaching the arts...
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  • the 20th century called Abyssinia. Ethiopia, Etiopia or Aethiopia may also refer to: Aethiopia, Classical Greek term for parts of North Africa or the northern...
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    Arabian Peninsula Iran Levant Iraq Ancient Egypt Ancient Libya Nubia Aethiopia The land of Punt Periplus of the Erythraean Sea White, Donald; White,...
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  • intransitive "to burn, to shine" (related is the name Aithiopes (Ethiopians; see Aethiopia), meaning "people with a burnt (black) visage"). In Plato's Timaeus (58d)...
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  • Aethiopia elongata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1911. BioLib.cz - Aethiopia...
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    by present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt, was referred to as "Aethiopia" ("land of the burnt face") by the Greeks. Nubia in her greatest phase...
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    Ovid, after Perseus turns Atlas into a mountain range, he flies over Aethiopia, the blood of Medusa's head giving rise to Libyan snakes. By the time...
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