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general sense to include the neighbouring territories of Gimirra, Jimma, Ennarea, &c. In this larger acceptation Kaffa extends roughly from 6° to 90 N. and from 350 to 371° E. It forms the S.W. part of the See also:

GREAT

great Abyssinian See also:

plateau and consists of broken table-See also:

LAND

land deeply scored by See also:

mountain torrents and densely wooded. The general See also:

ELEVATION

elevation is about 8000 ft., while several peaks are over 10,000 ft. From the western slopes of the plateau descend headstreams of the See also:

SOBAT

Sobat. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

RIVER

river however is the Omo, the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief feeder of See also:

Lake See also:

RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

Rudolf. Kaffa proper is believed to be the native See also:

home of the See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee plant (whence the name), which grows in profusion on the mountain sides. The principal See also:

TOWN

town was Bonga, 71° N., 36° 12' E., a great trading centre, but the Abyssinian headquarters are at Anderacha, about 12 m. S.S.W. of Bonga. Jiren, the capitalof Jimma, 6o m.

N.E. of Bonga, is a still more important town, its weekly See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market being attended by some 20,000 persons. A great variety of races inhabit these countries of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

ETHIOPIA, or AETHIOPIA (Gr. AlOtoaia)

Ethiopia. The Kaficho (See also:

PEOPLE

people of Kaffa proper) are said to be of the same stock as the See also:

NORTHERN

northern Abyssinians and to have been separated from the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the country by the See also:

MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan invasion of the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. Thus Jimma, immediately See also:

north of Kaffa proper, is peopled by Mahommedan See also:

Gallas. The Kaficho, though much mixed with Galla See also:

BLOOD

blood, retained their See also:

CHRISTIANITY

Christianity and a knowledge of Geez, the ecclesiastical See also:

TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue of See also:

ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

Abyssinia. The See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of the Kaficho has no outward resemblance to See also:

MODERN

modern Abyssinian. Their speech was, however, stated by Dr C. T. See also:

BEKE, CHARLES TILSTONE (1800-1874)

Beke (c. 1850) to be cognate with the Gonga tongue, spoken in a portion of Damot, an the northern See also:

side of the Abai. Kaffa, after having been ruled by See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent sovereigns, who were also suzerains of the neighbouring states, was about 1895 conquered by the Abyssinians. The first See also:

EUROPEAN

European explorer of Kaffa was See also:

ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine de'See also:

Abbadie, who visited it in 1843.

Not until the See also:

early years of the 20th century was the country accurately mapped.

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