Names
birth: ብርሃን፡ ሞገሳ፡↗ normalized: Bǝrhān Mogasā↗ birth: ምንትዋብ፡↗ normalized: Mǝntǝwwāb↗ baptismal: ወለተ፡ ጊዮርጊስ፡↗ normalized: Walatta Giyorgis↗
Period of Activity
She was the most powerful political figure during the Gondarine time and she assumed a regency both during the reign of her son King ʾIyāsu II↗ and grandson King ʾIyoʾas I↗ .
Death
1775 (internal)
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Names
- birth: ብርሃን፡ ሞገሳ፡ gez
- birth: ምንትዋብ፡ gez
- baptismal: ወለተ፡ ጊዮርጊስ፡ gez
Dates
Period of activity: 1730–1775
Death: 1775
Occupation
queen
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Basset, R. 1882. Études sur l’histoire d’Éthiopie, ed., tr. R. Basset, Extrait du Journal Asiatique (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1882).
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Guidi, I., ed., 1954. Annales regum ʹIyāsu II et ʹIyoʹas, tr. I. Guidi, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 66, Scriptores Aethiopici, 29 (Louvain: Imprimerie Orientaliste, L. Durbecq, 1954).
Secondary 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).
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Berry, L. B. 2003. ‘Bǝrhan Mogäsa’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 534a–535a.
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Chernetsov, S. 1994. ‘The Crisis of Ethiopian Official Royal Historiography and Its Consequences in the 18th Century’, Proceedings of the 11 th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, I (1994), 87–101. page 87-101
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻBǝrhān Mogasāʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-11-13) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS2682BerhanM [Accessed: 2024-05-21]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: additions to bibliography on 13.11.2017
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Baptismal name added on 12.5.2017
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Minor correction on 27.3.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 5.8.2016
- 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
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Dorothea Reule, contributor