British Expedition to Abyssinia to Ethiopia. In 1999, several prominent figures in England and Ethiopia created the Association For the Return of the Magdala Ethiopian Treasures (AFROMET) which has pursued an information and lobbying campaign to see all treasure repatriated back to Ethiopia. Tewodros had asked his wife, the Empress Tiruwork Wube, in the event of his death, to put his son, Prince Alemayehu, under the protection of the English. This decision was apparently made in fear that his life would be taken by any aspirant for the empire of Abyssinia. In accordance with these wishes, Alemayehu was taken to London where he was
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