Abyssinia (battle honour) No 1181 of 1869. It is not considered repugnant. The following Indian units were awarded the battle honour (their present-day inheritors are listed after): The 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was depicted in a work of historical fiction, Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser. This work was Fraser's last 'Flashman' novel. Abyssinia (battle honour) Abyssinia is a battle honour awarded to units of the British Indian Army and the British Army which participated in the 1868 campaign to free Europeans held hostage in Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia) by Emperor Tewodros II (known at that time to the British
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