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  • The first woman in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal in 10,000 meters

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    The first woman in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal in 10,000 meters

    The first woman in Africa to win an Olympic Gold medal in 10,000 meters is an Ethiopian athelete, Deratu Tulu at Barcelona-Spain in 1992.

    • Fatuma Roba is the first African woman to win gold in th marathon.
    • Other Olympic Gold medal winners are million wolde, Gezahagn Abera, and Meseret Defar.
    • kenenisa Bekele(broke olmpic record in 5,000 and 10,000 meters in Beijing Olympic -2008).He holds world records in both the distances.
    • Tirunesh Dibaba is the first woman in the world to win gold in 5,000 and 10,000 meters at a single Olympic event (Beijing Olympic-2008).
    • she holds the current world record in 5000 meters.
    • Teki Gelana won the Olympic Gold medal in mararhon held at the London Olympic Games in 2012.
    • Gete wami, sileshi Siheen, Ejigayehu Dibaba, Assefa Mesgebu, Fita Bayissa, Addis Abebe, Mohammad kedir, eshetu Tura, Tesfaye Tolla and Tsegaye Kebede are Olympic medal winners.
    • The late yidenekechew Tessema nicknamed as The Rock of Gibraltor’ is called the father of modern sports not only in Ethiopia but also in Africa
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  • Ethiopian Traditional Games

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    Ethiopian Traditional Games 

    There are 238 traditional games that that are played in Ethiopia

    • The most popular is Selus Gebeta’ believed to have existed since the Axumite kingdom
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  • Emperor Fasiledes

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    Emperor Fasiledes

    Emperor Fasiledes could see 11 churches dedicated to various saints from different angles through his bedroom windows in the Gondar castle .

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  • Ethiopia is called the land of thirteen Months of Sunshine.

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    Ethiopia is called the land of thirteen Months of Sunshine.

    • It follows the thirteenth-month Coptic calendar, instead of the twelve month Gregorian (Western)calendar used in most parts of the world. Twelve months each consist of thirty days and the other five days of the year make up the thirteenth month. The sixth day occurs in a leap year
    • Ethiopia is seven years and eight months behind the Gregorian calendar. 
    •  The New year beings on September11.
    • The year 2013 is 2005 in the Ethiopian calendar.
    • The Ethiopian Millennium was celebrated on12th September (leap year)2007 i.e.1st’meskerem; 2000- Amet meheret;- (The year of Mercy.)
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