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 Hyena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The hyena has one of the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom and an adult of the species has only the large cats of the family Felidae (Lions, Tigers, etc.) to fear.
An adult hyena's bite is capable of being equivalent to 800 lbs.
G.W.B. Huntingford, The Galla of Ethiopia; The Kingdom of Kafa and Janjero (London: International African Institute, 1955), p.
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 Kingdom of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With the end of the Lombard Kingdom in 772, its territory, along with the former Byzantine possessions in Northern Italy became a new Kingdom of Italy, sometimes called the Regnum Italicum or, in Italian, the Regno, which formed one of the constituent parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Kingdom was supposed to pass to a younger son of Napoleon, failing which, Eugène was to succeed.
In 1861, the King of Sardinia was proclaimed King of a new united Kingdom of Italy, Sardinia having recently annexed Lombardy, Tuscany, Modena, Parma, the Two Sicilies, and most of the Papal States.
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AD 1700 Sennar 30,000 none AD 1800 none none Sennar decayed as a trade center due to local violent rivalry with Darfur and the Shilluk kingdom, and was displaced between 1700 and 1775 by Shendi to its north.
The Middle Kingdom Pharaohs re-invaded Nubia in the eleventh dynasty and occupied it in the twelfth (1991-1786 BC), building fortresses.
In the 15th century European explorers found five vassal kingdoms of the Jolof empire (whose capital was inland) upon the Senegal-Gambia coast.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Oromo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
During the 16th century, following the wars between the kingdom of Ethiopia and the neighbouring Sultanate of Adal, led by Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi the Oromos moved north into Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian monk Bahrey, writing in 1593, attributed the Oromo success to the existence of too many non-fighting classes in the ruling Ethiopian heirarchy, as opposed to the Oromos, whom he described as having a homogenous warrior class.
The Galla of Ethiopia; the Kingdoms of Kafa and Janjero.
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 Bantaba in Cyberspace - Monarchies of Africa
The Kingdom of Waalo (Oualo) was a kingdom on the lower Senegal River in West Africa, in what are now Senegal and Mauritania.
To the north were Moorish Emirates; to the south was the Kingdom of Cayor; to the east was Jolof (Diolof).
The kingdom was indirectly hereditary, ruled by three matrilinial families: the Logar, the Tedyek and the Joos, all from different ethnic backgrounds.
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 Articles - Kingdom of Kaffa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Gojeb River formed its northern border, beyond which lay the Gibe kingdoms; to the east the Konta and Kullo peoples lay between Kaffa and the Omo River; to the south numerous tribes of the Gimira people, and to the west lay the Masongo people.
During the 16th century, all of the territories north of the Gojeb River were lost to the Oromo migrations; however, the Kaffa kings compensated for this by annexing the neighboring small Gimira states, and in the later 18th century brought the neighboring state of Walamo under their control.
During the reorganization of the provinces in 1942, the former kingdom was enlarged by the addition of a number of other kingdoms from the Gibe region to become Kaffa Province.
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 Hyena - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The hyena has one of the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom and an adult of the species has only the large cats of the family Felidae (Lions, Tigers, Jaguars, etc.) to fear.
(See lycanthropy.) In the former Kingdom of Kaffa (now part of south-western Ethiopia), qora or were-hyenas were outlawed by special laws.
Those accused of turning into hyenas at night were bound and presented to a priest of Docco, who would determine if the accused was, in fact, a qora.
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 languagehat.com: THE KING'S WORDS.
The royal language of Janjero consisted of a special vocabulary for parts of the body, weapons, and verbs of action referring to the king.
Thus "eye" in common Janjero is afa, but kema in the royal language; "eat" is ma in common speech, bos in the royal language; and "spear", ebo in common speech, is me'a in the royal language.
The language of respect used special words to describe the ordinary actions of notables: "eat" is ma in common speech, but ta in the language of respect.
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 With the Armies of Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia
At the head of the state government of Jimma is the hereditary king from the Kake dynasty, Aba Jefar, who inherited the throne from his father, Aba Dula.23 The kingdom of Jimma used to be in feudal dependence to Kaffa.
Janjero, both by its customs and its language, is sharply distinguished from neighboring tribes.
In the kingdoms of Kulo, Konta and Koshya kindred tribes live, who are very similar in type, having a common language, culture and customs.
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 AllRefer.com - allRefer Reference - Hamito-Semitic languages : The Hamitic Subfamily (Language And Linguistics) - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Berber tongues have survived Phoenician, Roman, and Arab conquests.
The two principal Cushitic languages are Oromo, the tongue of 20 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya, and Somali, spoken by 9 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.
Among the many other Cushitic languages are Saho-Afar, Agau, Beja, Burji, Geleba, Gimira, Janjero, Konso, Kaffa, Maji, and Sidamo.
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 Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
Dizi, Gonga, Gimira, Janjero, Kaficho, and Walamo are among the Omotic languages.
The Chadic group of languages are spoken near Lake Chad in central Africa.
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 Redins Antikvariat - Afrikas etnografi.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
From the Old Congo Kingdom to the Congo Independent State with special reference to the Swedish Missionaries in the 1880's and 1890's.
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 Institute of Development and Education for Africa (IDEA)
As early as 1882, Menelik had begun subduing the Guraghes and in the same year he had his eyes on the kingdoms of Kaffa and Jimma and other small states within the Gojeb-Didessa-Ghibe westerly valleys.
Two years later, the peoples of Borena, Kambata, Wolaita and Sidama were incorporated and in 1894, the Kingdom of Janjero fell under Menelik.
Of all the kingdoms of the south, the kingdom of Kaffa was not subdued until after the battle of Adwa in 1896.” (p.
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The hyena has one of the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom and an adult of the species has only the lion to fear.
The pelt can be light to dark-brown on Brown Hyenas, while the color can be grey, sometimes nearly white on Striped Hyenas.
Those accused of turning into hyenas at night were bound then taken to a priest of Docco, who would determine if the accused were truly a qora.
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In the 1870s, the Zulu Kingdom was by far the most powerful African State of the Limpopo.
The Zulu Kingdom and the Boer Republic of the Transvaal had been feuding for a long time.
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 Articles - Monarchies of Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This is a list of Monarchies that existed during Imperial Ethiopia.
This list is divided into kingdoms that were subdivisions of Ethiopia, and kingdoms that were later conquered by Ethiopia.
Kingdom of Kaffa - foundation 1390 for old Kaffa Kingdom; 1700 for new Kaffa Empire
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Frjeans reimplemented undertaken Chief of Janjero Staff in 1948 and unguided the position until 1955.
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 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Ethiopia / Bibliography
Land Tenure among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent.
Surbiton, United Kingdom: Land Resources Division, Ministry of Overseas Development, 1975.
Berkeley, G.F.H. The Campaign of Adowa and the Rise of Menelik.
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Another theory is that the Gujjars are related to the Rajputs and that Mughal Emperor Aurangzed made an agreement that if the Rajput lost in the wars with the Mughals that they would have a portion of them convert to Islam.
There is mention of a Gujjar Kingdom in Rajasthan with Bhilmal as the Capital.
In his book "Geography of Jammu and Kashmir State" Majid Husain says that before their arrival in the sub-continent they were the inhabitants of Georgia (Gurjia) a territory situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Soviet Union.
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 Amazon.fr :  The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
THE NORTH and NORTH-EAST: The Aksumite Kingdom and the Afar Depression
THE SOUTH-WEST and WEST: Gurage, Waj, Kambata and Walamo, Gamo, Hadeya, Ganz, enarya, Bosha, Damot, gafat, Janjero, Kafa, and the Countries of the Bareyas and "Shanqellas"
THE SOUTH-WEST and WEST: Gamo, Gurage and Waj, Hadeya, Kambata, Enarya, Damot, gafat, Bizamo, the Country of the Gambos, janjero, Kafa, the Countries of the "Shanqellas", Gongas and Dobe'as, adn the Senaar frontier
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 If Africans are less intelligent... [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
The fact that there were connections between Semitic and ancient Egyptian had long been recognized, and starting with the 1960s, scholars of certain non-Semitic African languages began to point out an increasing number of resemblances between them and the Semitic group as well.
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 Ethiopian border states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
They are grouped as follows: (A) Walayta (Walayta, Bosha, Sheka); (B) Leqa (Leqa Naqamte, Leqa Qellam); (C) Giba States (Limu-'Enarya, Goma, Guma, Gera, Jima); (D) Janjero (Gimirra, Amarro, Janjero); (E) Kafa (Kafa, Konta, Dauro); (F) Yefat/Harar (Harar); (G) Walo; (H) the Afar sultanate of Awsa.
Chako state, known by Ethiopians as Gimirra, founded 1955 dynasty extinguished Rulers (title Koynab) - Koyniyab dynasty -...
af.1530 Yengar or Yam state, known by Ethiopians as Janjero, refounded by Mowa dynasty 1894 incorporated into Ethiopia Rulers (title Tato or Amno) - Mowa dynasty -...
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 Redins Antikvariat - Afrikas historia.
Crawford, O.G.S., THE FUNG KINGDOM OF SENNAR with a Geographical Account of the Middle Nile Region.
VIII, 296 pages + plates + folding map.
Quinn, Charlotte A., MANDINGO KINGDOMS OF THE SENEGAMBIA.
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 magyar27
c#'ure dust /Gidicho (Haruro); tulo dust /Janjero; turu ground /Nao
toman, tuman a myriad, 10,000; a sum of money equal to 10,000 Arabic silver drachmas (which are about one-third less than those of the Greeks); gold coin = 10 sabqrans, districts into which a kingdom is divided, each being supposed to furnish 10,000 fighting men.
Although this word is now apparently archaic/obsolete in Hungary proper, it is still used by the Hungarian Székely nation in Transylvania once a part of the kingdom of Hungary.
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Century, Hungarian king Laszló, the Saint, imposed a fine of 5 PENSA in certain judicial matters see [ob].
Century, Transylvania was an integral part of the kingdom of Hungary, while Croatia was an independent state administered by the Bán of Croatia.
metsa mats'a bee /Chara; mets') /Gimira; boto /Janjero; mac#'- mats'- /Kafa; bati mati /Mao [oi4]
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 Table of Gods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A god known from an inscription at Crita
A god known from the the Middle Kingdom and later
A god known only from being mentioned in Akkadia texts
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