Aethiopian, Æthiopian, [1] Æthiopic ko Habasha Tekun ko kogin (Latin ko Oceanus Æthiopia; Larabci: البحر الأثيوبي) shine sunan da aka ba kudancin rabin Tekun Atlantika a cikin ayyukan al'ada na gargajiya. Sunan ya bayyana a taswirori tun zamanin da har zuwa farkon karni na 19. [2]
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A kalmar Girkanci ta asali Okeanos Aithiopos tsohon suna ne ga abin da a yanzu ake kira Kudancin Tekun Atlantika. An raba shi da Arewacin Tekun Atlantika ta wani yanki mai kunkuntar tsakanin Natal, Brazil da Monrovia, Laberiya. Kalmar Tekun Habasha ta kuma bayyana har zuwa tsakiyar karni na 19, misali akan taswirar Accuratissima Totius Africae a Lucem Producta, wanda Johann Baptist Homann da Frederick de Wit suka zana kuma Jacob von Sandrart ne suka buga a Nürnberg a shekarar 1702. [3]
Sunan Aethiopian yana da alaƙa da cewa, a tarihi, Afirka ta yamma da kudancin Masar ana kiranta da Aethiopia. A zamanin yau amfani da kalmar na gargajiya ya zama wanda ba a daina amfani da shi ba. Haka nan al'ummar Habasha, wacce a lokacin ake kiranta da Abyssinia, ba ta kusa da wani ruwa da ake kira sunan ta, sai dai a kishiyar gabashin Afirka da ke kusa da Tekun Indiya da kuma mashigin tekun Bahar Maliya. [4]
Masana tarihi na Girka na dā Diodorus da Palaephatus sun ambata cewa Gorgons sun rayu a cikin Gorgades, tsibiran da ke cikin Tekun Aethiopian. Ana kiran babban tsibirin Cerna kuma, bisa ga Henry T. Riley, waɗannan tsibiran na iya yin daidai da Cape Verde.[5]
A taswirori na karni na 16, sunan Arewacin Tekun Atlantika shi ne Sinus Occidentalis, yayin da tsakiyar Atlantic, kudu maso yammacin Laberiya ta yau, ya bayyana a matsayin Sinus Atlanticus da Kudancin Atlantic a matsayin Mare Aethiopicum. [6]
A karni na 17 John Seller ya raba Tekun Atlantika kashi biyu ta hanyar ma'aunin zafi da sanyio. Ya kira yankin arewacin Tekun Atlantika "Mar del Nort" da kuma kudancin "Oceanus Æthiopicus" a cikin Atlas Maritimus wanda aka buga a shekarar 1672. [7] Edward Wright bai yiwa Arewacin Atlantika lakabi kwata-kwata ba amma ya kira yankin kudu da equator "Tekun Habasha" a cikin taswirar da aka buga bayan mutuwa a shekarar 1683. [8] John Thornton yayi amfani da kalmar a cikin "Sabuwar Taswirar Duniya" daga 1703.[9]
Shekaru goma bayan sharuɗɗan Tekun Habasha ko Tekun Habasha sun faɗi cikin rashin amfani don komawa zuwa Kudancin Tekun Atlantika, masanin ilimin halittu William Albert Setchell (1864-1943) ya yi amfani da kalmar da teku a kusa da wasu tsibiran kusa da Antarctica. [10]
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