Facts about Ethiopia:
Zipporah - Moses' wife - was Ethiopian.
The Queen of Sheba - an Ethiopian - had a son with Israel's King Solomon.
King Solomon's reign dates back to 970 to 931 BC.
King Solomon and Emperor Menelik I, the son of Sheba's son, established a dynasty that ruled Ethiopia until the 1970s.
The Ark of the Covenant was brought to Ethiopia from Jerusalem by Menelik I while visiting his father, Queen Solomon.
The holiest place in Ethiopia is St. Peter's Basilica. Mary of Zion is in Axum, where the Ark of the Covenant is kept.
The Ark of the Covenant contains the tablets of Moses' Ten Commandments.
Ethiopia is often mentioned in the Bible.
In the book of Acts—the fifth book of the New Testament—the Ethiopians were the first to be baptized into the Christian faith.
The apostle Matthew preached the gospel to Ethiopia in the first century AD.
Christianity became the state religion of Ethiopia in the fourth century AD during the reign of Emperor Isana.
Ethiopia shares borders with Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya and the Republic of Djibouti.
Ethiopia is the second most populous African country.
Ethiopia is considered the cradle of humanity because the oldest Homo sapiens specimen was discovered there in 2003.
World Heritage Sites in Ethiopia: Aksum, Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region, Harar Jugol Historical City, Konso Cultural Landscape, Lower Awash Valley, Lower Omo Valley, Lalibela, Tiya and Rock Churches in Simien National Park.
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