Dawāro
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ደዋሮ፡↗ normalized: Dawāro↗ alt: Dauarro↗ alt: Davvaro↗ alt: Dauri↗ Ethiopia↗ Arsi↗ Bāle↗ Wabi Šäbälle↗ ʾIfāt↗ ʾAwāš↗ ʿAfar↗ Šarḫa↗ Arabäbni↗ ʾIfāt↗ Šarḫa↗ Bāle↗
ደዋሮ፡gez
alt: Dauarroar
alt: Davvaroar
alt: Dauriar
History
history: Dawāro was one of the seven Muslim trading states of the southern Ethiopia↗ which corresponds to the present day Arsi↗ . It is bordered with Bāle↗ Sultanate in south, Dawāro was separated from it by the Wabi Šäbälle↗ river and bordered on ʾIfāt↗ on the right bank of ʾAwāš↗ . In the east, it reached the edge of the ʿAfar↗ lowlands, in th south-west it bordered on the small principalities of Šarḫa↗ and Arabäbni↗ . In Ethiopic chronicles it appears first in that of ? ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I↗ . Acccording to this source, he subdued Dawāro together with ʾIfāt↗ , Šarḫa↗ and Bāle↗ in the war of 1332, when it was ruled by a governor called Ḥaydarā↗ . After the victory of ? ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I↗ in 1332, Dawāro became a stronghold of the Christian empire. Following the defeat of the Christian emperor, ?, Lǝbna Dǝngǝl↗ , in 1529, Dawāro came under the domain of the Muslim territoy. It was ruled first by the son of ʾAḥmad↗ , Naṣraddīn b. Aḥmad↗ during the first year of the reign of ? Galāwdewos↗ . After the death of Naṣraddīn b. Aḥmad↗ in 1542, Dawāro was ruled by one of the a great war lord of ʾAḥmad↗ , ʿAbbās b. kabīr Muḥammad↗ who was later defeated and killed by ? Galāwdewos↗ . Then after, ? Galāwdewos↗ appointed Fānuʾel↗ , one of his principal commanders as governor of Dawāro and the region depend on it. The chronicle of ? Galāwdewos↗ describes Dawāro a blessed land that flows milk and honey which represents it was the most fertile and suitable land for agricultural activities in medieval time. Since the half of 16th century, it was devastated and overrun by the Oromo↗ and it became the major settlement of them.
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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Muth, F.-C. 2005. ‘Däwaro’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 109b–111b.
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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 83, 86-88, 91, 95, 101, 102, 107, 110-112, 117, 121-123, 125, 126, 130, 131, 134, 249
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Braukämper, U. 2002. Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia: Collected Essays, Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie, 9 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2002).page 70-76
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 22.8.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: harmonized typology based on Eugenia indication in Issue 48. on 27.4.2016
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