Habesha peoples: Ge'ez: ሐበሻ /Habesha/ or /Abesha/ (rarely Habeshat: Ge'ez: ሐበሻይት), or rarely used exonyms like "Abyssinian people," "Aithiops: Greek: Αἰθίοψ," "Cushites: Hebrew: כאשיטאס‎, [not the be confused with the larger group -- Cushitic Peoples -- that includes but is not limited to Habeshas]," or "al-Ḥabaš (al-Habash): Mehri-Arabic: الهباش‎/al-Ḥabaši (al-Habashi): Mehri-Arabic: الحبشي‎ ~ ‘incense gatherers’ ~”. Habesha (Ge'ez: ሐበሻ) is a common term used to refer to both Ethiopians and Eritreans as a whole or in some instances even other Horn Africans/Northeast Africans [25][26]. Certain definitions considered the Ethiosemitic-speaking and Agwa-speaking Cushitic peoples inhabiting the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea as the core ethnic groups that historically constituted the pan-ethnic group Habesha peoples, while this notion is falling out of use. They historically include a linguistically, culturally and ancestrally related ethnic groups, conservatively-speaking mostly from the Ethiopian Highlands Members' cultural, linguistic, and in certain cases, ancestral origins trace back to the Kingdom of Dʿmt, the Kingdom of Aksum, among other kingdoms that preceded or made up the Ethiopian Empire in the Horn of Africa. Some Scholars have classified the Tigrayans and the Amhara as Abyssinians proper under an ultra-neo-conservative theory postulated by a few scholars but not widely accepted by the general public.