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There is an Ethiopian American community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. According to the Embassy of Ethiopia, this was the largest ethnic Ethiopian community not in Africa.〔Westley, Brian. "(Washington: Nation's Largest Ethiopian Community Carves Niche )" ((Archive )). ''Associated Press'' at the ''USA Today''. October 17, 2005. Also: "(Washington: Nation's Largest Ethiopian Community Carves Niche )." ''Associated Press'' at ''The Southeast Missourian''. October 23, 2005. p. 7C. Retrieved on September 3, 2014.〕 ==History== Ethiopians began settling Washington, D.C. after the Derg overthrew Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie in 1974.〔Kravitz, Derek. "Young parking lot czar is the face of Ethiopian success in the D.C. area." ''Washington Post''. Monday August 16, 2010. p. (1 ). Retrieved on September 3, 2014.〕 Ethiopians moved to Adams Morgan in the 1980s.〔Wax, Emily. "(Ethiopian Yellow Pages: Life, by the book )." ''Washington Post''. June 8, 2011. Retrieved on September 3, 2014.〕 Adams Morgan served as a center of business of the Ethiopian community.〔Getahun, Solomon A. "Africans and African Americans from East Africa, 1940-Present." In: Barkan, Elliott Robert (editor). ''Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration''. ABC-CLIO, 2013. ISBN 1598842196, 9781598842197. Start p.: 687. Cited: p. (693 ).〕 In the mid-1990s many Ethiopians began moving to the U Street area.〔 Many moved out of Adams Morgan to other areas after rent became increasingly expensive.〔 The campaign to officially designate the U Street area as Little Ethiopia started around 2004. Elizabeth Chacko, the author of "Translocality in Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa," stated that the Ethiopian community wanted the Little Ethiopia in Washington, D.C. because the city is the capital of the United States.〔Chacko, "Translocality in Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa," p. (169 ).〕 This campaign was not successful.〔 The author added that at that time, the Ethiopian area in Alexandria, Virginia had a higher concentration of Ethiopians compared to the one in Washington, D.C.〔 In 2004 the Mayor of Washington, D.C. signed the DC Language Access Act, which provided government services in five non-English languages including Amharic. The Ethiopians were among the groups campaigning for this act.〔Chacko, "Africans in Washington, DC," p. (253 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethiopians in Washington, D.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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