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Having its own ancient calendar and clock that it still uses, Ethiopia celebrates it's new year every year on the 11th September and every four year on the twelfth of September because of leap year. Ethiopia have celebrate it's millennium on the twelfth, September 2007, seven years after the rest of the world. Let's see why:

The calendars of the whole world are based on the work of the old Egyptian astronomers who discovered - as early as three to four thousand years BC - that the solar or sidereal year lasted slightly less than 365 days. However, it was left to the astronomers of the Alexandrian school to embrace this knowledge into a calendar; and it was these astronomers who also came up with the idea of leap years.

The Romans under Julius Caesar borrowed their changed calendar from the Alexandrian science and adopted it to the western countries. Then after the Copts inherited this science as a right and built upon it themselves. Ultimately, the Copts handed this calendar, together with their method of computing the date of Easter, on to their descendant Church in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian year thus has something in common with the western year, having been derived from the same source.

The Ethiopian calendar keeps the old Egyptian system whereby the year was divided into 12 months of 30 days each and one additional month of 5 days and (six days in leap years). Ethiopian dates hence, fall seven to eight years behind western dates and have done so since early Christian times. This difference results from differences between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Churches to the date of the creation of the world.

Each Ethiopian year is dedicated to one of the four Evangelists according to the cycle: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The year of St. Luke is Leap Year, and thus always has six days in the thirteenth month of the Ethiopian calendar.

There were times when Ethiopia's fame reached its high point on several occasions; times when Ethiopia inspired the world as one of the pioneers of early civilization, not to mention its reputation as the cradle of mankind.

Come to the heart of Africa, Addis Ababa, when we celebrates this African Millennium, and witness an ancient African civilization, history, and culture.

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