What was the kingdom that Mansfield Parkyns traveled around and is also known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopian Empire The Ethiopian Empire (Amharic: ), also known as Abyssinia (derived from the Arabic "al-Habash"), was a kingdom that spanned a geographical area in the current state of Ethiopia. It existed from approximately 1137 (beginning of Zagwe dynasty) until 1974, when the Solomonic dynasty was overthrown in a coup d'état.
History of Sudan The history of Sudan includes both the territory that is today part of the Republic of the Sudan as well as a larger region known by the term "Sudan". The term is derived from Arabic: بلاد السودان‎ ‎ "bilād as-sūdān" "land of the black people", and can be used more loosely of West and Central Africa in general, especially the Sahel.