Abyssinia
Abyssinia (/æbɪˈsɪniə/;[1] also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.[3][4] The origin of the term might be found in Egyptian hieroglyphic as the designation of a southern region near the Red Sea that produced incense, known as ḫbś.tj.w, "the bearded ones" (i.e Punt).The Hellenized name of Habessinien, ABACIIN appears in an Aksumite coin of c.400 AD, and shortly after the first attestation in late Latin in the form Abissensis.The region of the Abasēnoi produce[d] myrrh, incense and cotton and they cultivate[d] a plant which yields a purple dye (probably wars, i.e. Fleminga Grahamiana).[3] Abasēnoi was located by Hermann von Wissmann as a region in the Jabal Ḥubaysh mountain in Ibb Governorate,[6] perhaps related in etymology with the ḥbš Semitic root.