Geez People
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| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Ge'ez language | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Tigré · Amhara · Agaw · Tigre · Afar people · Beja people · Gurage · Harari · Gafat People · Oromo · Somali |
The Ge'ez people are ancient indigenous African Semitic-speaking people who lived in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea and spoke the Ge'ez language.[1] They were already living in these regions of Africa in the early 1st millennium BC and are considered the founders of the Axumite empire and Daamat kingdom.[2] These people formed the basic ethnic and cultural stock for both the pre-Axumite and Axumite states.[2] Historians believe that the Ge'ez people did not behave like their South Arabian neighbours.[3]
Some Ge'ez people settled in the northern lowlands, while others moved and settled as far south as southern Shewa. Their language was heavily influenced by their Cushitic-speaking neighbours, such as the Agaw and Beja, leading to the development of the Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigre, Gurage, and Harari languages. Many became Christians, while some became Muslims, and others were assimilated by expanding Cushitic peoples.[4][5][6][7][8]
Notable Ge'ez people
- Zoskales - kings of Axum
- Endubis - kings of Axum
- Aphilas - kings of Axum
- Wazeba - kings of Axum
- Ousanas - kings of Axum
- Ezana - kings of Axum, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Aksum to embrace Christianity.
- MHDYS - kings of Axum
- Ouazebas - kings of Axum
- Eon of Axum - kings of Axum
- Ebana - kings of Axum
- Nezool - kings of Axum
- Gersem - kings of Axum
- Armah - kings of Axum
- Sahama - kings of Axum
References
- ↑ The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences, Volume 1 - Google Books: Iconographic Publishing Company (1954). p. 352
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Peter Robertshaw A History of African Archaeology - Google Books: James Currey Publishers (1990). p. 97
- ↑ C. Edmund Bosworth, British Academy A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 - Google Books: OUP/British Academy (2001). p. 70
- ↑ Dan Connell, Tom Killion Historical Dictionary of Eritrea - Google Books: 2010. p. 508.
- ↑ Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience- Google Books: 2005. p. 164.
- ↑ Gosnell L. O. R. Yorke, Peter M. Renju Bible Translation and African Languages - Google Books: 2004. p. 11.
- ↑ Hakluyt Society Some records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646: being extracts from the History of High Ethiopia or Abassia, by Manoel de Almeida, together with Bahrey's History of the Galla, Volume 107 - Google Books: 1954. p. lxix.
- ↑ Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst Ethiopia: A Cultural History - Google Books: 1955. p. 114
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