Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Volume 5 Y Z Addenda Index
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Volume 5 2014 Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Volume 5 Y Z Supplementa Addenda et Corrigenda Maps Index Edited by Alessandro Bausi in cooperation with Siegbert Uhlig Editorial Board Baye Yimam Donald Crummey Gianfranco Fiaccadori ז"ל Gideon Goldenberg Paolo Marrassini Ewald Wagner 2014 Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden
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Table of Contents Preface... vii Acknowledgements... ix Hamburg editorial team... xi Field specialists... xi Contributors to Volume 5... xii Notes for the user and abbreviations... xv Articles... 1 Y... 1 Z... 101 Supplementa... 205 A... 207 B... 269 C... 287 D... 296 E... 307 F... 309 G... 331 H... 339 I... 348 J... 369 K... 374 L... 381 M... 407 N... 456 O... 471 P... 476 R... 495 S... 501 T... 524 U... 543 V... 545 W... 548 Addenda and Corrigenda... 559 Volume 1... 559 Volume 2... 563 Volume 3... 567 Volume 4... 570 Maps... 572 Titles, ranks and functions... 580
Table of Contents Maps... 591 List of maps... 591 Introduction to the map section... 592 Physical map of the Horn of Africa... 594 Climate and agriculture... 596 Ecology and agro-ecological zones... 597 Languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea... 598 Languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, detail... 599 European travellers until the 18 th century... 600 European travellers in the 19 th century (selection of travel routes in the southern region)... 601 Colonialism in the Horn of Africa (Treaties and boundaries): northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia... 602 Colonialism in the Horn of Africa (Treaties and boundaries): southern Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan... 604 Ethiopia in the 16 th century (Ottoman war; Great population movements)... 606 Main prehistoric and rock-art sites; Megalithic cultures... 607 Main archaeological sites (1 st millennium B.C. 1 st millennium A.D.)... 608 Zag w e period... 609 Early Solomomic Christianity... 610 Christian Muslim conflicts in the 16 th century... 611 Christian Ethiopia and Sinnār in the early 17 th century... 612 Architectural heritage of the Gondärine period... 614 Architectural heritage of Gondär town... 616 Zämänä mäsafǝnt... 618 Ethnic and political units in southern Ethiopia before Mǝnilǝk II s conquest (ca. 1890 95)... 620 Main Christian sites... 622 Main Islamic sites... 623 Africa Orientale Italiana... 624 Infrastructure during the Italian occupation... 625 Italian War (1935 36) and War of Liberation (1941)... 626 Administrative division... 627 Administrative division of Ethiopia: awraǧǧas (1984)... 628 Administrative division of Eritrea (after 1995)... 630 Administrative division of Ethiopia: Tǝgray (after 1991)... 632 Administrative division of Ethiopia: ʿAfar (after 1991)... 633 Administrative division of Ethiopia: Amhara (after 1991)... 634 Administrative division of Ethiopia: Oromiyaa, Addis Abäba, Dǝrre Dawa, Harär (after 1991)... 636 Administrative division of Ethiopia: Somali (after 1991)... 638 Administrative division of Ethiopia: Beni Šangul Gumuz & Gambella (after 1991)... 640 Administrative division of Ethiopia: Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (after 1991)... 641 Administrative division of Djibouti... 642 Administrative division of Somalia (after 1984)... 643 Credits and bibliographical sources... 644 Index... 649 List of authors... 1261 Image credits... 1268 vi