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Abyssinia is a historical name for the Ethiopian Empire.

Abyssinia may also refer to:

Arts and media

• Abyssinia, a theatrical show by Bert Williams
• Abyssinia (musical), a show first staged in 1987
• Abyssinia (1906 musical), 1906 Broadway musical by Will Marion Cook, Bert Williams, Jesse A. Shipp, and Alex Rogers
• "Abyssinia", a song by the Patti Smith Group on Radio Ethiopia
• Abyssinia, a 2003 novel by Ursula Dubosarsky
• "Abyssinia, Henry", an episode of the television series M*A*S*H

Languages

• Abyssinian languages, family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan

People

• Abyssinian peoples, ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier used to refer to Ethiopians and Eritreans

Places

• Abyssinia Lines, a neighbourhood of Jamshed Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Apostolic Vicariate of Abyssinia, the former Eastern Catholic missionary

Vessels

• HMS Abyssinia (1870), a British armoured ship
• SS Abyssinia, an 1870 Canadian Pacific steamship

Other uses

• Abyssinia (battle honour)
• Abyssinia Creek, The Pilbara, Western Australia

See also

• All pages with titles containing Abyssinia
• Abyssinian (disambiguation)
• Habash (disambiguation)
• Habishi (disambiguation)
• History of Ethiopia