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Tigray was a province of Ethiopia. The Tigray Region superseded the province in 1995. By the time of its demise, Tigray had absorbed a number of its neighboring provinces, including Semien, Tembien, Agame and Endarta. Map of Ethiopia highlighting the Tigray region. ...
The Agame (fruitful) district is located in northern Ethiopia. ...
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Proto-Tigrayans and Proto-Amharas were the main ethnicity of kingdom of Axum in the first millennium CE. Their language, in form of Ge'ez, remained the language of later Ethiopian imperial court as well as the Ethiopian Church. The Tigray-Tigrinya are an ethnic group who live in Eritrea and the northern highlands of Ethiopias Tigray province. ...
Amhara (አማራ) is an ethnic group in the central highlands of Ethiopia, numbering about 21 million, making up around 30% of the countrys population (estimates differ). ...
The Axumite Kingdom, also known as the Aksum Kingdom, was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from circa the 5th century BC to become an important trading nation by the 1st century AD. It converted to Christianity in 325 or 328 (various sources). ...
The Geez language (or Giiz language) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry. ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia that was part of the Coptic Church until it was granted its own Patriarch by Cyril VI, the Coptic Pope, in 1959. ...
From earliest times, a position called Bahr negus had overlordship of much of the Eritrean coast and of Tigrayans, also of highlanders. Another position, Tigray Mekonnen, became important in Eritrean and Tigrayan highlands and ultimately gained the overlordship earlier held by Bahr negus. At the time those positions existed simultaneously, their frontier seems to have been the Mareb River. Before the 19th century, both titles had sunken to practically nominal, and the lord who in his turn dominated the region, used (and received from Emperor) the title of either Ras or Dejazmach. Princes of Tigray alternated with others, chiefly those of Begemder or Yejju, as warlords to rule in reality the Ethiopian monarchy during the Zemene Mesafint (or "Era of the Princes"). This is a list of Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles used in Ethiopia until the end of the Monarchy in 1974. ...
The Mareb River (or Gash River), is the most northerly of the highland rivers of Ethiopia which flow to the northwest, and forms part of the border with Eritrea. ...
Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles used in Ethiopia until the end of the Monarchy in 1974. ...
Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles used in Ethiopia until the end of the Monarchy in 1974. ...
Begemder was a province in the north-eastern part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Gondar. ...
Some historians date the murder of Iyasu I, and the resultant decline in the prestige of the dynasty, as the beginning of the Ethiopian Zemene Mesafint (Era of the Princes,) a time of disorder when the power of the monarchy was eclipsed by the power of local warlords. ...
In the mid-1800's, the lords of Tembien managed to create an overlordship of Tigray to their dynasty. One of its members, Dejazmach Kassai Mercha, ascended the imperial throne in 1872 under the name Yohannes IV. Following his death in the Battle of Metemma, the Ethiopian throne came under control of the king of Shewa, and the center of power was shifted south and away from Tigray. 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
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Shewa (also spelled Shoa) is a historical region of Ethiopia. ...
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