Unique languages and writing

It is not only its calendar that differentiates Ethiopia from its neighbors. Alone in Africa, Ethiopia has its own script and notational system.

Religions

• The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the oldest Christian church
  in Africa. Christianity became the state religion in the Axumite
  empire in 330 AD., even before Rome.
• 
  Muslim refugees were given asylum in Ethiopia, established
  communities and were free to worship before Islam triumphed
  in its birthplace Arabia.
  
  

Ethiopia makes you 7 years younger

• How Ethiopia makes you 7 years younger
  In 1582 when the rest of the Christian world adopted
• the Gregorian calendar, Ethiopia stayed with the Julian calendar.
  With the passage of time, seven and a half years have somehow
  dissolved in the intervening centuries.
  

3000 years of independance

When the European powers were scrambling to carve up Africa
between them, Ethiopia retained its independence. The defeat
inflicted by the Ethiopian army under Emperor Menelik II on
invading Italian forces at Adwa in 1896 was the heaviest suffered
by any European army in Africa, and reverberated throughout
the world at the time.

The occupation of Ethiopia by Mussolini’s forces from 1935-41
was met with strong and continuous resistance, and left no permanent
stamp on the character of the country or the psyche of its people.