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unusual facts about Tigray-Tigrinya people


Dehab Faytinga

Her first CD album drew upon her father's Kunama heritage while also melding it with her mother's Tigrinya and Bilen heritage.


1983–85 famine in Ethiopia

Five Ethiopian provinces—Gojjam, Eritrea, Hararghe, Tigray, and Wollo—all received record low rainfalls in the mid-1980s.

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, born on June 8, 1979 at Alamata, Tigray, formerly Wollo, Ethiopia, is a young public intellectual.

Architecture of Ethiopia

Throughout the medieval period, and especially from the 10th to 12th centuries, churches were hewn out of rock throughout Ethiopia, especially during the northernmost region of Tigray, which was the heart of the Aksumite Empire.

Stelae (hawilts) and later entire churches were carved out of single blocks of rock, emulated later at Lalibela and throughout Tigray, especially during the early-mid medieval period (c. 10th and 11th centuries in Tigray, mainly 12th century around Lalibela).

Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign

Projects undertaken by AFFHC have included appeals for India (1966), East Timor (1975), Kampuchea (1981) and famine relief appeals for Ethiopia, Tigray and Eritrea (1985).

Baeda Maryam I

Cholera (or some other pestilence) broke out among his men, depressing him further, resulting in his withdrawal to Tigray.

Battle of Wofla

The Battle of Wofla was fought on August 28, 1542 near Lake Ashenge in Wofla (or Ofla) in the modern Ethiopian Region of Tigray (previously part of Wollo; its incorporation into Tigray instead of Amhara is therefore disputed), between the Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama and the forces of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi.

Black Jackets

Italians, Turks, Kurds, Albanians, Somalis, Serbs and Montenegrins, Mhalmites, Bosniaks, Russians (ethnic Russians as well as Chechens, Russian Jews and German Russians), Eritreans, Greeks, Afghans and Moroccans have all significantly contributed to the membership in Germany.

Dejazmach Birru

In late 1841, Dejazmach Wube Haile Maryam, governor of Tigray and Semien, who was regarded as one of the most powerful lords of the time, set out to Debre Tabor to depose Ras Ali II from his position as Enderase.

Dinqinesh Mercha

Through the old aristocratic families of Tembien and Enderta districts of Tigray, Empress Dinginesh could trace her lineage to the Solomonic dynasty through at least two female links.

Dobe'a

Cholera (or some other pestilence) broke out among his men, depressing him further, resulting in his withdrawal to Tigray.

They were first described, during the reign of Emperor Ba'eda Maryam (r. 1468-1478), as inhabiting the region between Enderta (in Tigray province) and Lake Ashenge (Today in Tigray Region, formerly part of the Amhara province of Wollo), neighboring the Afars of the vassal Dankali Sultanate on the east.

Ethiopian Jews in Israel

Most Beta Israel came from Tigray and Wolqayt, regions that were controlled by the TPLF which often escorted them to the Sudanese border.

Hawzen

On 8 March 1892, Dejazmach Sebhat Aregawi submitted to Ras Mangesha Yohannes at Hawzen by ceremonially carrying a stone upon his neck before Ras Mangesha as the other Rases of Tigray and Ichege Tewoflos watched; Ras Mangesha then pardoned the Dejazmach.

Hormuzd Rassam

After being delayed for about a year in Massawa, Rassam at last received permission from the Emperor to enter his realm, but due to rebellions in Tigray was forced to follow a circuitous route taking him to Kassala, then to Metemma, along the western shore of Lake Tana to finally meet with Emperor Tewodros in northern Gojjam.

Jan Amora

The place name Jan Amora appears in the Futuh al-Habasha and in an 18th century legal text, but it is unclear if they refer to the place that became this woreda; Richard Pankhurst believes that this "Jan Amora" was located in Tigray.

Jerónimo Lobo

After a month spent crossing the desert into the Ethiopian highlands, the party reached Fremona, where Lobo assumed the responsibilities of superintendent of the missions in Tigray.

Karl Wilhelm Isenberg

In 18341835, he joined the mission station at Adowa, Ethiopia where they stayed till 1838; however, Gobat was compelled to quit the mission from ill-health at Tigre, also spelt Tigray.

Kebra Nagast

His brother, Apollinare, also went out to the country as a missionary and was, along with his two companions, stoned to death in Tigray.

Mangasha Seyum

(Leul) (Ras) Mangasha Seyum was born in 1926 in Dengolat, a village in Enderta county, part of Tigray province of Ethiopia .

Maychew

It is located at 665 km north of Addis Ababa along the Asphalt road that runs to Mekelle (the capital city of Tigray region) with an altitude of 2479 m.

Meles Zenawi

Meles was born in Adwa, Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, to an Ethiopian father Zenawi Asres from Adwa and Alemash Guebreluel from Adi Quala, Eritrea.

Monolithic church

This practice was very common in Tigray, where the outside world knew of only a few such churches until the Catholic priest Abba Tewelde Medhin Josief presented a paper to the Third International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in which he announced the existence of over 120 churches, 90 of which were still in use.

Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy is a dominant religion in Armenia (94%), the ethnically Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (95%), and in Ethiopia (43%, the total Christian population being 62%), especially in two regions in Ethiopia: Amhara (82%) and Tigray (96%), as well as the chartered city of Addis Ababa (75%).

Ras Mengesha Yohannes

Following their allegiance with Menelik, they returned to Tigray, where Bahta Hagos initiated the rebellion against the Italians.

Religion in Eritrea

Islam first arrived to the region when immigrants from Mecca, persecuted by the ruling Quraysh tribe were accepted into Abyssinia by the ruler of Ethiopia whom Arabic tradition has named Aṣḥama ibn Abjar, and he settled them in Negash, located in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher

Sebhat was born in 1928 in Tigray region near the historical town of Adwa in a village called Erba Gered.

Tiruwork Wube

Empress Tiruwork Wube was accorded full honors by the British troops as her body was carried away to the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Chalacot in Tigray, where her paternal grandfather had been buried.

Wossen Seged

After he assumed control of Shewa, he joined in an alliance with Ras Wolde Selassie of Tigray to invade the territories of Ras Gugsa of Yejju.


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