Ethiopian people or Ethnic Ethiopians are an ethnic group found in the horn of African country of Ethiopia.

Origins

Ethnic Ethiopians are one of the nearly 80 ethnic groups of the horn of Africa country and are found in every regional state of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

. According to the Ethiopian scholar and author Teshome Borago, who coined the term "Ethnic Ethiopians," they are compromised of all mixed people of Ethiopia who "share a common descent, common fate and common heritage."

Some of the high profile Ethiopian people in history include Poet Laureate Tsegay Gabre-Madhin, Olympian Abebe Bikila, Emperor Eyasu V, Araya Selassie Yohannes, singer Tilahun Gessesse, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Emperor Haile Selassie and Judge Birtukan Mideksa

Birtukan Mideksa

Birtukan Mideksa is an Ethiopian politician and former judge. She is the leader of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice party. The English equivalent of Birtukan is "orange."-Early life:...

.

Demographics

According to an unscientific survey carried to estimate their numbers, the highest percentage of participants suggested that mixed Ethnic Ethiopians are around 30% of the total Ethiopian population.
While Ethnic Ethiopians do not have one common religion, they have more religious homogeneity than other traditional ethnic groups like Gurage

Gurage

Gurage is an ethnic group in Ethiopia. According to the 2007 national census, its population is 1,867,377 people , of whom 792,659 are urban dwellers. This is 2.53% of the total population of Ethiopia, or 7.52% of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region...

 and Oromo

Oromo people

The Oromo are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, .and parts of Somalia. With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and approximately 34.49% of the population according to the 2007 census...

 (who have nearly 50-50 percent Islam to Christian ratio). Due to most mixed people being found in the Christian dominated urban settlements of Ethiopia, the majority of them adhere to the said religion.

Though mixed people can be found in every corner of the country, they are mostly located in the urban and the Ethiopian highlands that mainly surrounded the former province of Shewa

Shewa

Shewa is a historical region of Ethiopia, formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire...

. According to Mr. Borago,

Ethnic Ethiopians live in every region of the country but they are most densely found in the urban areas and in the thousands of rural market towns of the country due to historical migration, commercial integration and military events like conquests between and among southerners like Sidamas, Gurages, Oromos as well as northerners.

See also

• Tigray
• Oromo
  Oromo people
  The Oromo are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, .and parts of Somalia. With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and approximately 34.49% of the population according to the 2007 census...
  
  
• Somali
  Somali people
  Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...
  
  
• Afar
  Afar people
  The Afar , also known as the Danakil, are an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa. They primarily live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, although some also inhabit the southern point of Eritrea.-Early history:...
  
  
• Amhara
  Amhara people
  Amhara are a highland people inhabiting the Northwestern highlands of Ethiopia. Numbering about 19.8 million people, they comprise 26% of the country's population, according to the 2007 national census...