A history of the Hadiyya in Southern Ethiopia /
The Hadiyya are an ethnic group of 1.5 million people in central-southern Ethiopia. Linguistically they belong to the Highland East Cushitic cluster. In Ethiopian and Arabic chronicles between the 13th and the 17th centuries they were mentioned as representatives of a powerful Muslim state which con...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Wiesbaden [Germany] :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2012.
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Colección: | Äthiopistische Forschungen ;
Bd. 77. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Hadiyya are an ethnic group of 1.5 million people in central-southern Ethiopia. Linguistically they belong to the Highland East Cushitic cluster. In Ethiopian and Arabic chronicles between the 13th and the 17th centuries they were mentioned as representatives of a powerful Muslim state which continuously challenged the hegemony of the Christian Ethiopian Empire in that region. Following the expansion of the Oromo from the 16th century onwards the Hadiyya were territorially fragmented and adopted different ethnic identities, for example, of Gurage, Allaaba, Sidama and Oromo. In their histor. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (533 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783447192644 344719264X |
ISSN: | 0170-3196 ; 0170-3196 |