Ethiopian Highlands

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Ethiopian Highlands is the name for a mountain area in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is also called Abessynian Highlands, named after Abyssinia, a region on the Horn of Africa. Most of the highlands are about  above sea level, the highest point is at  above sea level. There is a lot of rain.  People do agriculture, they raise cattle, or  cultivate Teff, a staple food.

The Highlands are about  north to south, and about  east to west. The Alps have a s similar size.

In Ethiopa, the Highlands  cover the regions Amhara, Oromia and Tigray. In Eritrea, the regions covered are Maekel, Debub, Gash-Barka and Anseba.

 History 
In the southern parts of the Ethiopian Highlands there was  the Kingdom of Kaffa, a medieval and early modern state. From there, the coffee plant was exported to the Arabian Peninsula. The land of the former kingdom is mountainous with stretches of forest. The land is very fertile, capable of three harvests a year. The term  coffee derives from the  ()Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "coffee, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1891. and is traced to Kaffa.

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Category:Geography of Ethiopia
Category:Geography of Eritrea