Agʿazi People
አግዓዚ | |
|---|---|
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Sabaic, Ge'ez | |
| Religion | |
| Islam, Christianity, South Arabian polytheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Agew, Sabaeans |
The Ag'azi People, also known as Agazi People, were a people who ruled the Kingdom of D'mt, Kingdom of Aksum, under the Ag'azyan Dynasty and the Solomonic Dynasty, being the predecessor of the Solomonic Dynasty, with Sheba being its last dynastic ruler, and the Ag'azi People are the ancestors of Habesha's.[1][2] At least some pre-Axumite kings descended from the Ag'azi, and later, According to Stuart Munro-Hay, the Ge'ez language may be named for the Ag'azi.[3]The Agazi People had most of their people within the Aksumite Region of Agʿazi. The Agazi People also primarily inhabited from Sahel and Barka and reaching as far south as Shewa and as far east as Eastern Gojjam.
History and Origins[edit]
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The Ag'azi People date back to 2000 B.C when the Sabaeans had traveled and migrated from the Kingdom of Saba in which they began mixing with the Agaw People, and formed the Ag'azi People.[4][not in citation given]
Punt Period[edit]
The Punt Period lasted from the early 2000s B.C until the fall of Punt in 980 B.C., when Menelik I established his Kingdom of D'mt after it.[citation needed] He succeeded his mother, Makeda. Menelik I was the son of Solomon and Sheba according to the Kebra Nagast.
City-State Period[edit]
The Kingdoms of Adulis and Wukro were one of the City-States established as a result of the Collapse of D'mt. Eventually, the City State Period began to end and then officially ended in 240 A.D, after Axum conquered Wukro in c.200 B.C. and Adulis in c.240 A.D. This than began the period of Axum.[citation needed]
Axumite Period[edit]
Axum, being previously called Mazaber after being established in 400 B.C, Evolving from a City Kingdom centered in Axum into a Kingdom, Axum would have prospered through the 1st-7th Centuries, with the Conquest of Kush under Ezana, Trading with Rome, India, and China, converting to Christianity, and even replacing Sabaic with Ge'ez as the official language of Axum.[5][incomplete short citation][6]
The Split of the Peoples[edit]
In the 600s, the Axumite Kingdom began to decline due to the Muslims destroying the powerful port city of Adulis, and taking over Axumite Dominance over the Red Sea, which had led to Axumite Decline due to lack of Trade and internal weakening, with territories such as Semien beginning to break away from the Kingdom more and more. Eventually, in 960 A.D, Queen Yudit of Semien would kill Dil Na'od of Axum, which ended the Axumite Kingdom. As a result of Axum's fall, The Agazi Peoples had split up into new ethnic groups such as Amhara, Tigrayans and many other Habeshan ethnic groups. In which the Peoples had been divided due to the religious split between Christianity and Islam.[citation needed]
Religion[edit]
Before Frumentius converted King Ezana to Christianity, The Main Religion of the Ag'azi People was Paganism and even Judaism as a minority since 587 B.C when Judaism arrived to Ethiopia.[7] In around 330 C.E., Frumentius, a Greek slave who landed on the shores of Aksum, had taught King Ezana of Axum about Christianity, in which this had led to Ezana's Conversion to Christianity, as well as Frumentius becoming the first Abuna of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Ezana would spread Christianity throughout the land of the Aksumite Kingdom, leading Christianity to become the Dominant Religion of Ag'azi Peoples. During c. 500s, a monk named Yared composed the chants of the Ethiopian church including zema. But in 614, when Islam Arrived to Axum, Ag'azis in the East, in areas such as Mora and other areas in the East of the Aksumite Kingdom that the Ag'azi People had inhabited, converted to Islam, which would have led to a religious split between Western Ag'azis and Eastern Ag'azis, but Islam would have peaked after the Ag'azi People had split, which happened due to the collapse of Aksum.[8][not in citation given]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Kropp, Manfred (2006). "Ein später Schüler des Julius Africanus zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in Äthiopien". In Wallraf, Martin. Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 321ff. ISBN 978-3-11-019105-9.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Haile, Gezaw. "Who are really the habesha and Sabean". Academia.[self-published source]
- ↑ Munro-Hay, Stuart (1991). "Aksum An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-01-19 – via Livingston.org.
Ge`ez, possibly deriving its name from the Agwezat or Agazi tribal group, is now a dead language except for its use in traditional Ethiopian Orthodox church rituals and in some specialised circumstances, such as poetry.
- ↑ Japp, Sarah; Gerlach, Iris; Hitgen, Holger; Schnelle, Mike (2011). "Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Sabaʾ and DʿMT — New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. 41: 145–160. ISSN 0308-8421. JSTOR 41622129.
- ↑ Munro-Hay, Aksum, pp. 79, 224.
- ↑ Stuart Munro-Hay (2002). Ethiopia: The Unknown Land. I.B. Tauris. p. 41. Search this book on
- ↑ "Operation Solomon: from Ethiopian Jews to Ethiopian Israelis". Jewish Museum London. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
- ↑ "Ethiopia: Islam's First Sanctuary". Islamic Relief. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
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