Wag(Amharic:ዋግ) is a traditionalHighlanddistrict in theAmhara RegionofEthiopia,in the approximate location of the modernWag Hemra Zone.Weld Blundelldescribed the district as bounded on the south by the mountains ofLasta,on the east and north by theTellare River,and the west by theTekezé.[1]The major urban center is the town ofSokota,which has been a major marketplace for centuries.
James Brucestates that Wag was given to the heirs of the deposedZagwe dynasty,when theSolomonic dynastywas restored to the throne of Ethiopia in 1270. The head of the fallen Zagwe family accepted the district as well as the title ofWagshumas part of the settlement for their loss. However, theprovinceis mentioned for the first time only in the 14th century.[2]Mugahid ofAdalled the conquest of Wag in the sixteenth century.[3]
References
edit- ^H. Weld Blundell,The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840,(Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 542
- ^G.W.B. Huntingford,The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704,(Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 100
- ^Chekroun, Amélie.Le "Futuh al-Habasa": écriture de l’histoire, guerre et société dans le Bar Sa’ad ad-din (Ethiopie, XVIe siècle).l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. p. 336.
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