ʾAli Gwāngul, ʾAli I
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: አሊ፡ ግዋንጉል፡↗ normalized: ʾAli Gʷāngul, ʾAli I↗ nick: ትልቁ፡ ራስ፡ አሊ፡↗ normalized: Ali the Great↗ rās role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a powerful kingmaker and came to power in 1784 and nominated the puppet King Takla Giyorgis I↗ to the throne.
Death
1788 (internal)
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Names
- birth: አሊ፡ ግዋንጉል፡ gez
- nick: ትልቁ፡ ራስ፡ አሊ፡ gez
- rās role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1784–1788
Death: 1788
Occupation
governor
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Editions Bibliography Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions Bibliography
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Blundell, H. W. 1922. The royal chronicle of Abyssinia: 1769-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922).
Editions Bibliography
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Budge, E. A. W. 1966. A history of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinia. According to the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia, and the Ethiopian chronicles (London; Oosterhout N.B.: Methuen [1928] Anthropological Publications, 1966).
Secondary Bibliography
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Abir, M. 1968. Ethiopia: The Era of the Princes: The Challenge of Islam and Re-Unification of the Christian Empire, 1769-1855 (New York: Praeger, 1968).
Secondary Bibliography
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Crummey, D. and Red. 2005. ‘Gwangul’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 938b–939a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Daria Elagina, ʻʾAli Gwāngul, ʾAli Iʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 12.3.2020) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS1719AliGwan [Accessed: 2024-05-01+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Daria Elagina Daria Elagina: Corrected transliteration. on 12.3.2020
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 12.8.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Daria Elagina, contributor