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Welcome To Ethiopian Heritage
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Dynasty and its Traditions
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Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations in the world,which is also endowed with a rich and diverse cultural and historical heritage. With a long history stretching back thousands of years, it has been part of the ancient world whose past, nevertheless, is the least explored and known from among such rich background, the country's heritage has not been properly and scientifically researched, conserved and promoted to benefit its people and the wider human family.
Thus the Ethiopian Heritage Promotion Association in the United Kingdom (EHPAUK) has been formed with ultimate goal of gathering and conserved properly the taken out of the country, and passing the collections to the next generation safely. It also aims to display the collections for show and thus by to strength sentimental attachments between Ethiopia and its foreign admirers.
The establishing objectives of EHPAUK are:
- Advanced the education of the public in all maters relating to the language, culture and religion of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Diaspora in Britain thereby promoting good race relations;
- Preserving such heritage consisting of relices, artifacts and various other collections and put them on display through a range of methods including temporary exhibition, presentation at cultural events and venues and permanent shows in a museum or gallery;
- Recording, documenting and preserving the lives and experiences of Ethiopians in the UK through photographs, audio-visual and other multimedia means thereby contributing towards the multicultural goals of the host society.
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Ethiopian Tribal Necklace
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 Ethiopian engagement pendant and necklace. Metal content is unknown. Necklace is 25 inches.
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Ethiopian Imperial Orders & Medals
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Notes & Coins in the Early days
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 Coins may have existed many years before. However according to official records, it was since the reign of King Endybis and Aphilas that Axum was trading with a legal currency issued by its kings for the use of internal and external trade.
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 Menelik II as ended the Ethiopian throne in 1889 after the death of Yohannes IV. The same year the Italians occupied part of the Eritrean highland.. The Italians produced a coin called Tallero Eritreo of the same size and shape as Maria Theresa thaler to make people believe that it was almost of the same ontent and value as the thaler. It was minted in Rome and appeared in the market of Asmara in 1890. The Italians thought this new thaler or dollar with its denominations would gain popularity and replaces the Austrian coin, which lacked divisional units, not only in occupied Eritrea but also in Ethiopia. As Ethiopia had no currency of its own at that time, the Italians had a strong belief that their currency would influence the Ethiopians as well. The Italians hoped it would be the established currency in Ethiopia with the help of Emperor Menelik. But this hope was soon dispelled as a result of misunderstanding over the interpretation of the Italo-Ethiopian agreement of Wuchallie, which intimated that the Italians wanted to put the whole of Ethiopia under their protectorate.
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