Abyssinia (Abyssin`ia) , a mountainous country SE. of Nubia, with an area of 200,000 sq. m., made up of independent states, and a mixed population of some four millions, the Abyssinians proper being of the Semite stock. It is practically under the protectorate of Italy.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aby`dos * Acacia