Gugsā Marsā
Solomon Gebreyes
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Names
ጉግሳ፡ መርሳ፡ Gugsā Marsā rās role: title
Period of Activity
He became one of the greatest rulers of Warrasek (Yaǧǧu) in1800 and he was said to be "Gugsā the Great". He was a Muslim and later converted to Christianity. He acted as a kingmaker throughout his rule. He had an important place in the history of land tenure system in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
Death
1825
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Names
- birth: ጉግሳ፡ መርሳ፡ gez
- rās role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1800–1825
Death: 1825
Occupation
governor
Residence
Dabǝra Tābor↗ which was founded by him in around 1802
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Editions 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).
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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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Crummey, D. 2000. Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (Urbana–Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
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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).
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Crummey, D. and Red. 2005. ‘Gugsa Märsa’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 906b–907a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻGugsā Marsāʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-08-28) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4870GugsaMa [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Correction to transcription on 28.8.2016
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 11.8.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor