Ethiopia Overview
Ethiopia is officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa, which stretches for hundreds of kilometers along the Gulf of Aden, the Somali Sea, and the Guardafui Canal, located on the south side of the Red Sea. There are Eritrea in the north, Djibouti in the northeast, Somalia in the east, Kenya in the south, South Sudan in the west, and Sudan in the northwest. With a population of more than 109 million as of 2019, Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in the African continent. The total area of the country is 1,100,000 square kilometers. Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.
A Brief History of Ethiopia
The oldest modern human skeletal remains have been found in Ethiopia, an important country in terms of human history. In Ethiopia, state findings based on the monarchy government system, whose roots date back to 2000 BC, have been found. M.S. in the region In the first centuries, the Kingdom of Aksum was a unified kingdom in the region, and the Kingdom of Ethiopia was established in 1137. The Ge'ez alphabet, one of the oldest alphabets used in the world, is still used in Ethiopia. Ethiopia, which was a colony of Italy until the end of World War II, is also the first African country to be accepted by the United Nations.
Geography in Ethiopia
With an area of 1,104,300 square kilometers, Ethiopia is the 28th largest country in the world. Much of Ethiopia is in the Horn of Africa, the eastern part of the African continent, and Ethiopia stretches from the northwest to the southwest and is divided by the Great Rift Valley, which lies between the plains, steppe lands, the Ethiopian Plateau in the north and the Somali Plateau in the south. It is a country with a wide variety of types of land, including highlands and highlands. Accordingly, the soil structure, vegetation, and climate in Ethiopia is also very diverse.
Climate in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, which flows just north of the equator, the temperature is not very variable throughout the year. Northwest monsoons, locally called Kiremt, are effective from June to September. The climate on the Ethiopoya Plateau can vary from cool, warm, or pleasantly warm depending on the altitude.
Coffee Production in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is the homeland of coffee. Coffee has spread to the world from Ethiopia.
The Legend of Kaldi
According to legend, around the 9th century, a goatherd named Kaldi, who noticed that his goats fed by eating wild coffee plants from the Ethiopian springs were more energetic than usual, took the coffee cherries to a nearby monastery, and the monks in the monastery threw the coffee cherries into the fire, not first approving what Kaldi told. Upon the nice smells coming out of the coffee cooked on the fire, they took the coffee from the fire and put it in water to cool it. Thus, the first roasting of coffee and the meeting of roasted coffee with water was realized.
Ethiopia is today the 7th largest coffee producing country in the world and half of the coffee produced in Ethiopia is consumed in Ethiopia. It can be said that coffee production methods in Ethiopia have remained almost unchanged for centuries. Traditional farming and harvesting methods are used to produce coffee and natural methods are used for drying coffee, and there are still wild coffee trees in nature in Ethiopia.
The coffee production regions in Ethiopia are Harar, Yirgacheffe, and Limu. At the same time, Ethiopian coffees are marketed under these regional names. These regional coffee varieties are trademarks belonging to Ethiopia.
