British Expedition to Abyssinia British Expedition to Abyssinia The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire. Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, then often referred to by the anglicized name Theodore, imprisoned several missionaries and two representatives of the British government in an attempt to get the attention of the British government, which had decided against his requests for military assistance. The punitive expedition launched by the British in response required the transportation of a sizable military force hundreds of miles across mountainous terrain lacking
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