ʾAbbāy Habta Ṣǝyon
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: አባይ፡ ሀብተ፡ ጽዮን፡↗ normalized: ʾAbbāy Habta Ṣǝyon↗ baḥǝra nagāš role: title ↗
Birth
1869
Period of Activity
He was among the last notables of Ḥamāsen↗ to hold the office of baḥǝra nagāš role: title ↗ . He was officially promoted by the Italians, he inherited the office from his uncle Gwǝrade Zarʾay↗ . The decline of this office lead to the loss of effective executive power, but ʾAbbāy became the spokesperson and the head of the indigenous population of ʾAsmarā↗ , concentrated in its old quarters. It seems that thanks to his services the relationships with the Italian colonial administration, tense from time to time, stayed harmonious on the whole.
Death
He died at ʾAsmarā↗ in 1914.
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Names
- birth: አባይ፡ ሀብተ፡ ጽዮን፡ gez
- baḥǝra nagāš role: title
Dates
Birth: 1869
Period of activity: 1889–1914
Death: 1914
Occupation
leader
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Eritrea
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Smidt, W. 2003. ‘Abbay Habtä Ṣǝyon’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 29a.
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Kebre-Ab Tesfaí 2005. ‘Ḥarägot Abbay’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 1010b–1012a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻʾAbbāy Habta Ṣǝyonʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 29.8.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS1083AbbayHa [Accessed: 2024-05-03+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 29.8.2017
- 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
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Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor