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The history of Däbrä Tabor (Ethiopia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Richard Pankhurst
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Däbrä Tabor, the capital of Begemdir and headquarters of Emperors Tewodros II and Yohannes IV, was established, according to tradition, by the remarkable Oromo, or Galla, chieftain Ras Gugsa Mersa who held sway in the province from 1798 to 1825. He was the nephew of Ali Guangul, the founder of a Muslim dynasty, which as the islamisant Spencer Trimingham asserts, ‘became nominal members of the national Church for political reasons’.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , June 1977 , pp. 235 - 266
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