The history of this great African Country, once called Abyssinia, is multi-millenary and it's impossible to fix an only approximate start of it.
Just here, maybe, the mankind had its cradle; in 1974, in the North East, the skeleton of an hominids of 3 millions years ago was found.
It was that of a a young woman and it was named LUCY a,d was one of the most ancient ever found.

Then, many are the legends about this land and the kings that ruled it.

Firstly, it was the land of the SABAH QUEEN, who traveled until the court of King Salomon, in Israel.
The two kings met and falled in love and the result was that the Sabah Queen came back in Ethiopia pregnant.
Her son was MENELIK I, who come again in Israel as he was a young man to be recognized by his father.
A legend reports that, from Israel, he had carried in AXUM, then the capital of Ethiopia, the mythic Alliance Ark.

Uncertain chronicles came from the Egyptians, who called this region the "Punt Land", or the "Kusk Land".

The Greeks were the first to call the people of Abyssinia "Aethiopes", meaning "men with the burned face".

Axum continued to be the capital of Ethiopia and was full of monumental obelisks, mysterious monuments built in a period of scarce news about this Country.

The Christianism begun to to be known and followed in the first half of the IV century, after the mission of a bishop native from Syria, FRUMENTIUS and also the Jewish religion had many influence in Ethiopia, starting from that period.

But the difficult communications with the Mediterranean Sea made uncertain the characters of the Christian religion in Ethiopia, often more tied to the Egyptian Coptic religion.

In the first half of the XVI century, Ethiopia was invaded conquered by the Muslims led by Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Al Ghazi, a prophet of the "Jihad", by his followers.
Massacres, destruction, epidemics, whole populations reduced in slavery were the sad reality of those years.
The Ethiopian resistance called the Portuguese, then trying to establish their domination on the new shipping routes for India and China, asking their intervention against the Muslims.
The Portuguese intervened and, in 1543, there was the decisive battle with the victory of the Ethiopians and their allied.

Ethiopia recovered its independence and also the following attacks of the Muslims were more and more ineffective.

But the independence didn't give Ethiopia the unity and frequent were the fights among the various provinces

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