Ethiopia UK /ˌiːθiˈəʊ.pi.ə/US /ˌi.θiˈoʊ.pi.ə/ noun5 •A country in East Africa.Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production. — 1991 •The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia. •Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941. •Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg. •The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.