Tuesday, May 10

One out of 85.237.38

Just before we left for France and Paris, one of the citizens in Ethiopia found my blog and made me a visit. Welcome, hope you will return.
Ethiopia is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 85.2 million people, and the tenth-largest by area, with its 1,100,000 km2. The capital is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, and Kenya to the south. It is also the most populous landlocked country in the world.

East Africa, and more specifically the general area of Ethiopia, is widely considered the site of the emergence of early Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic 400,000 years ago. Homo sapiens idaltu, found at site Middle Awash in Ethiopia, lived about 160,000 years ago.
See more in the List of the Human evolution fossils dated back to about 7 millions years.

The present Flag of Ethiopia is from 8 December 2010. The three traditional colours (green, yellow and red) date back to Emperor Menelik (1889–1913) and were first used in a flag in 1897. Blue represents peace, the star represents diversity and unity, and the sun's rays symbolise prosperity. The green recalls the land, yellow stands for peace and hope, and red is symbolic of strength.

2 comments:

Anne said...

Jøsses har dæm internætt dær da du...

Rune Eide said...

Alltid hyggelig med besøk :-)

PS takk for kommentaren. "Sukket" var nok mer ment som at "det ble NOK en blomst fra meg", riktignok da med en liten grønn gjest. Ellers OK - sender en E-post senere.