Ḥawzen
Francesca Panini
Names
ሐውዜን፡↗ normalized: Ḥawzen↗ alt: ሐውዜና፡ ↗
This place name is mentioned in two land-granting documents of the Liber Axumae
ሐውዜን፡gez
alt: ሐውዜና፡ gez
This place name is mentioned in two land-granting documents of the Liber Axumae
General information
description: Ḥawzen is the name both of a waradā and of its administrative capital. This area was already important in Aksumite times and maintained an important role also after the decline of Aksum. Its territory was often and for long periods of time subject to historical Tǝgrāy↗ 's control.
Tābots
tabot: Still preserved in the modern town of Ḥawzen is a three-aisled rock-hewn church possibly dating to the 10th-13th century with a sanctuary containing a tābot dedicated to tabot: ʾAbuna role: title Takla Hāymānot↗ .
Secondary Bibliography
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Smidt, W. 2010. ‘Tǝgray’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 888a–895a.
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Lusini, G. 2005. ‘Ḥawzen’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 1054a–1055a.
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t:country | ኢትዮጵያ |
regional state | Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy |
province | Tǝgrāy |
area | Garʿāltā |
zone | Mǝʿrābāwi Tǝgrāy |
Coordinates | 14.0000 39.3333 |
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Alessandro Bausi, Francesca Panini, Dorothea Reule, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻḤawzenʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 12.10.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/places/LOC3826Hawzen [Accessed: 2024-05-05+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: minor transliteration corrections on 12.10.2017
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Fixed tābot on 15.9.2017
- Francesca Panini Francesca Panini: added info on 21.7.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: harmonized typology based on Eugenia indication in Issue 48. on 27.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: place on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Dorothea Reule, contributor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor