Gigār
Solomon Gebreyes
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Names
ጊጋር፡ Gigār ʾaṣe role: title
Period of Activity
He was one of the nominal kings of the Zamana Masāfǝnt, who was placed on the throne by Gugsā Marsā and deposed by Dori Gugsā in 1830. He was a monk before he was enthroned. Gigār made a number of land grants which are recorded both in the Mäṣḥafä Aksum and in the marginalia of the manuscripts in the British Library↗ . He also made grants directly to the churches like Dabra Bǝrhān Śǝllāse↗ and Gǝmǧā Bet Māryām↗ .
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Names
- birth: ጊጋር፡ gez
- ʾaṣe role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1821–1830
Occupation
Emperor
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Blundell, H. W. 1922. The royal chronicle of Abyssinia: 1769-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922).
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Wright, W. 1877. Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1847 (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1877).
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Crummey, D. 2005. ‘Gigar’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 792a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻGigārʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-03-20) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4661Gigar [Accessed: 2024-05-21]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 20.3.2017
- 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
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor