International African Friends of Abyssinia International African Friends of Abyssinia The International African Friends of Abyssinia (IAFA), also known as the International African Friends of Ethiopia, was an organisation established in London, England, in 1935 to protest against Italian aggression against Abyssinia (see Second Italo-Ethiopian War). Its membership was composed of many important Pan-African figures, several of whom later formed the International African Service Bureau. IAFA's first public meeting was held on 23 July 1935, with another public meeting taking place on Sunday, 28 July at Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London, and was widely reported in newspapers. Throughout the summer of 1935, the IAFA
Name of Georgia (country) the Syriac "gurz-ān"/"gurz-iyān" and Arabic "ĵurĵan"/"ĵurzan", derived from the New Persian "gurğ"/"gurğān", itself stemming from the Middle Persian "waručān" of unclear origin, but resembling the eastern trans-Caspian toponym Gorgan, which comes from the Old Persian "varkâna-", "land of the wolves". This might have been of the same etymology as the Armenian "Virk"' (Վիրք) and a source of the Greco-Roman rendition "Iberi" (), the ethnonym already known to them as a designation of the Iberian peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. One theory on the etymology of the name Iberia, proposed by Giorgi Melikishvili, was that it was derived from the contemporary