Who are the Amharas's ?

The Amhara are a semitic-speaking ethnic group who are native to parts of the northwest Highlands of Ethiopia, particularly in the Amhara Region. For over two thousand years they have inhabited this region. Amhara are one of the two largest groups in Ethiopia and constitute more than one-fourth of Ethiopia populations. There're known to be culturally dominant, but have not politically been in power for the last 50+ years.