Wagarā
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ወገራ፡↗ normalized: Wagarā↗ Ṭānā↗ Sǝmen↗ Sǝmen↗ Dambǝyā↗ Gondar↗ Bägemdǝr↗ ዳባት፡↗ Ṣägade↗ Sätit Humära↗ Wägära↗ Walqāyt↗
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History
history: Wagarā is a district north of Ṭānā↗ and south west of Sǝmen↗ , inhabited mostly by the Agäw↗ . It was one of the provinces in which Lǝbna Dǝngǝl↗ sought refuge during the Muslim wars of the sixteenth century. After Lǝbna Dǝngǝl↗ was defeated in the mid 1530s, Wagarā became the stronghold of the Muslim leader ʾAḥmad↗ until he was defeated and killed by King Galāwdewos↗ forces in 1543. Minās↗ and Säblä Dǝngǝl↗ used Wagarā as a staging ground for repeated campaigns against the ቤተ፡ እስራኤል፡↗ of Sǝmen↗ , who in 1585 raided and pillaged Wagarā. In the 17th century, dissension and rebellion in Wagarā persisted during the reign of Susǝnyos↗ . Wagarā had been also one of the regions where the Portuguese Jesuits proselytized: the Jesuits claimed that there were about 100, 000 Catholics in Wagarā and Dambǝyā↗ in 1630. During the 17th and 18th century, Wagarā was a granary for Gondar↗ . Under the mid 20th century, imperial administration, Wagarā was an awrāǧǧā within Bägemdǝr↗ composed of five waradās: ዳባት፡↗ , Ṣägade↗ , Sätit Humära↗ , Wägära↗ and Walqāyt↗ .
Secondary Bibliography
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene 2016. Chronicle of King Gälawdewos (1540-1559): Critical Edition and Annotated Translation PhD Dissertation, Hamburg: Universität Hamburg (2016).
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Conzelman, W. El., ed., 1895. Chronique de Galâwdêwos (Claudius) roi d’Éthiopie, Bibliothèque de l’École pratique des hautes études, Sciences philologiques et historiques, 104 (Paris: Librairie Émile Bouillon, Éditeur, 1895).
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Berry, L. 2010. ‘Wägära’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 1072a–1073a.
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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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