Aethiopia
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Ancient Aethiopia first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the skin color of the inhabitants of the upper Nile in Sudan, areas south of the Sahara, and less often to
Brazilian painting of Saint Kaleb of Axum slaying the king of Himyar beside Ephigenia of Ethiopia. He carries a banner of the lion of judah holding a cross, attested in the late medieval period.
European depiction of Amba Geshen, captioned "Abyssinian mountain of children" in French and Dutch
White Aethiopians
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White Aethiopians is a term found in ancient Greco-Roman literature, which may have referred to various light-complexioned populations inhabiting the Aethiopia region of antiquity. The exonym is used
Aethiopia
…Negus Ezana conquered Meroë in 330AD and took on the title of "king of Ethiopia" from the Nubians. Greco-Roman sources also report the existence of 'White Aethiopians' in Africa. By the modern period, the term Aethiopian Sea was used to refer to the southern Atlantic Ocean, particularly the area adjacent to West…
A sultan and his forces (right) battling the Abyssinian King and his men (Le Livre des Merveilles, 15th century). Leo Africanus wrote that "olive" complexioned people were among the natives of the kingdoms in the Horn of Africa.
Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin suggested that the ancient Leucaethiopes were Berbers who had penetrated southward into the desert.
Edmund Dene Morel suggested that the early Fulani could have been Pliny's Leucaethiopes.