International African Friends of Abyssinia passed resolutions urging all Africans and people of African descent to help Abyssinia and called upon the League of Nations and the British Government to protect Abyssinia. On 26 August, the IAFA organised a rally in Trafalgar Square which drew a crowd of nearly five hundred supporters. Members of the initial executive committee of the International African Friends of Abyssinia included: Other leading members came to include George Padmore, Chris Braithwaite and T. Ras Makonnen. 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
Name of Georgia (country) Russian exonym Gruziya (Грузия ['gruzʲɪjə]) is of Persian origin, from Persian: گرجستان "Gorjestân" (Turkish Gürcistan "Gurjistan", Ossetian: Гуырдзыстон "Gwyrdzyston"). The Russian name first occurs in the travel records of Ignatiy Smolnyanin as "gurzi" (гурзи) (1389) and Afanasy Nikitin as "gurzynskaya zemlya" (Гурзыньская земля, "Gurzin land") (1466–72). The Russian name was brought into several Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Macedonian, Ukrainian) as well as other language historically in contact with the Russian Empire (such as Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Hungarian, Yiddish, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghur, Chinese, Japanese, Korean). It also entered the contemporary Hebrew as גרוזיה ("Gruz-ia"). It coexisted