Habesha peoples

Habesha
Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ, romanized: Ḥäbäśät; Amharic: ሐበሻ, romanized: Häbäša; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ, romanized: Ḥabäša
Languages
	Ethiopian Semitic languages
Religion
	Predominately:; Oriental Orthodox Christianity; Minorities:; Sunni Islam, Protestant Christianity (P'ent'ay) and Judaism (Beta Israel)

Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya peoples) and this usage remains common today. The term is also used in varying degrees of inclusion and exclusion of other groups.