Salawā
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ሰለዋ፡↗ normalized: Salawā↗ alt: Salaoa↗ Ethiopia↗ Tämben↗ Saḥart↗ Waǧǧarāt↗ Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy↗ Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy↗ Tämben↗
ሰለዋ፡gez
alt: Salaoagez
History
history: It was a historic province in northern Ethiopia↗ and until 1970s a waradā, south of Tämben↗ and of Saḥart↗ , west of Waǧǧarāt↗ , at the southern borders of central Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy↗ . It was governed under its won governors, the Šum Salawā. The people of Salawā were a strong supporters of the Christian kings during the turbulent sixteenth century: Lǝbna Dǝngǝl↗ fighting at Salawā in 1539, during his war against ʾAḥmad↗ . In the 17th century, Salawā was one of a number of areas placed under the rule of ? Yolyos↗ . In the 18th century, Salawā was one of the several localities whose rulers ʾIyāsu I↗ interrogated in 1698 about taxes levied in Bǝḥerāwi Kǝllǝlāwi Mangǝśti Tǝgrāy↗ , while ʾIyāsu II↗ is reported to have visited the district in 1749. In 1930s, it was a sub-district of Tämben↗ province. In Salawā there are several rock-hewn churches. Not all have been documented, such as one Gawi↗ .
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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Smidt, W. and R. Pankhurst 2010. ‘Säläwa’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 492a.
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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 61n, 96, 99, 134, 166, 234, 236, 237
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 9.8.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: harmonized typology based on Eugenia indication in Issue 48. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
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