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) Name of Georgia (country) Georgia is the Western exonym for the nation in the Caucasus natively known as Sakartvelo (; , ). The Russian exonym is Gruziya (). The native name is derived from the core central Georgian region of Kartli i.e. Iberia of the Classical and Byzantine sources around which the early medieval cultural and political unity of the Georgians was formed. Both the Western and the Russian exonyms are likely derived from the Persian designation of the Georgians, "gurğān", evolving from Middle Persian "wurğān" and Old Persian "varkân" (𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴) meaning "land of the wolves". This is also reflected