AbbaBahrey (Ge'ez ባሕርይ bāḥriy, Ge'ez "pearl") was a late 16th centuryEthiopianmonk, historian, and ethnographer. He is best known for his 1593 work on the history of the Oromo and their migrations in the 16th century, the "History of the Galla" ("Galla" being a historical and now pejorative term for the Oromo; ዜናሁ ፡ ለጋላ zēnāhū lagāllā). Bahrey may also have been the author of EmperorSarsa Dengel's chronicle, "The History of King Sarsa Dengel."[1] Note: This article contains special characters. ... Geez (also transliterated Giiz, , and pronounced IPA: ; ISO 639-2 gez) is an ancient South Semitic language that had developed in the current region of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, as the language of the peasantry. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... A monk is a person who practices asceticism, the conditioning of mind and body in favor of the spirit. ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ... Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphe = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on months or years of fieldwork. ... Events May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyds accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. ... The Oromo, formerly called Galla (this usage has now become pejorative, but was widely used into the 20th century) are an indigenous African ethnic group found in Ethiopia and to a lesser extent Kenya. ... The Emperor (Geez ንጉሠáŠáŒˆáˆ¥á‰µ, , King of Kings) of Ethiopia was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. ... Sarsa Dengel (Amharic Sprout of the Virgin) (1550 - 1597) was negus (throne name Malak Sagad I) (1563 - 1597) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. ...
References
^ Baxter, Paul T.W., "Baḥrəy" in von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C (Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), pp. 446.
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