Dāmot
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ዳሞት፡↗ normalized: Dāmot↗ ʾAbbāy↗ Wälläga↗ Šawā↗ Didessa↗ Walāmo↗ Šawā↗ Ethiopia↗ Goǧǧām↗ Qwārā↗ Gondar↗ Goǧǧām↗
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History
history: The kingdom of Dāmot seems to have been in existence at least as early as the 10th century in the region immediately south of the ʾAbbāy↗ in the present-day Wälläga↗ and Western Šawā↗ . Its bounds are uncertain, but they may have stretched as far west as Didessa↗ river as far south as Walāmo↗ . It is believed that Dāmot from the 10th to the 13th century was the dominant power over both the Christian and Muslim principalities. However, in the late 13th century Yǝkunno ʾAmlāk↗ drove Dāmot from the Šawā↗ n plateau, but it was ? ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I↗ in the early 14th century who subjugating the kingdom. Thereafter the Christian culture slowly diffused among the population. By the 16th century, Dāmot had become an integral province of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia↗ . During the mid sixteenth century, the partly Christianized population joined with their Amhara↗ and ትግሬ፡↗ in fighting against the Muslim invasion of ʾAḥmad↗ . In the late sixteenth century, Dāmot was occupied by the Oromo↗ who made their new homeland. Throughout the 17th and 18th century Dāmot allied itself with Goǧǧām↗ and Qwārā↗ in pursuit of influence and power in Gondar↗ . In the mid 20th century, Dāmot was incorporated into the province of Goǧǧām↗ as an ʾawrāǧǧā.
Secondary Bibliography
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene 2016. Chronicle of King Gälawdewos (1540-1559): Critical Edition and Annotated Translation, Dissertation, Hamburg: Universität Hamburg (2016).
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Conzelman, W. E. 1895. Chronique de Galâwdêwos (Claudius), roi d’Éthiopie, texte éthiopien, traduit, annoté et précédé d’une introduction historique, ed., tr. W. E. Conzelman, Bibliothèque de l’École pratique des hautes études, Sciences philologiques et historiques, 104 (Paris: Librairie Émile Bouillon, Éditeur, 1895).
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Berry, L. B. 2005. ‘Damot’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 78b–79b.
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, S. 2015. ‘The Chronicle of Emperor Gälawdewos (1540-1559): a source on Ethiopia’s mediaeval historical geography’, in A. Bausi, A. Gori, D. Nosnitsin, and E. Sokolinski, eds, Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies: Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17–19 July 2014, Supplement to Aethiopica, 4 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 109–118.page 109-118
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Huntingford, G. W. B. 1989. The Historical Geography of Ethiopia: From the First Century ad to 1704, Ethiopic spellings revised by D. Appleyard, ed. R. Pankhurst, Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia, 4 (Oxford–New York, NY: The Oxford University Press, 1989).page 21, 22, 24, 30, 52, 69, 70, 71,73, 76, 78, 82-4, 86-88, 92-95, 106, 118, 119, 123, 127, 128,130, 131, 133, 138, 140, 141, 142, 147, 149, 150, 155, 158, 168-170, 172, 174, 175, 176, 179, 184, 187, 196, 197, 201, 216, 225, 226, 230, 239
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Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 14.8.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo harmonized typology based on Eugenia indication in Issue 48. on 27.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: place on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
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