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	Tigray (Ethiopia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		According to the Ethiopian Parliament site, "the State of Tigray consists of 4 administrative zones, one special zone, 35 woredas and 74 towns." It is "located at the northern tip of the country.
		What this means is that the old province of Tigray grew with territory formerly belonging to the province of Gonder to give birth to this state (eventually with border arrangements with other administrative divisions).
		The flag adopted for the state is red with a golden yellow triangle at the hoist and a large star of the same colour centered (or sort of) in the flymost 2/3rds of the flag, rotated to point at the fly.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/et-ti.html (423 words)

	Tigray Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tigray Region superseded the province in 1995.
		Princes of Tigray alternated with others, chiefly those of Begemder or Yejju, as warlords to rule in reality the Ethiopian monarchy during the Zemene Mesafint (or "Era of the Princes").
		Following his death in the Battle of Metemma, the Ethiopian throne came under control of the king of Shewa, and the center of power was shifted south and away from Tigray.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigray_Province (285 words)

	EthnoMed: Tigrean Cultural Profile
		It is flanked by the Sudan to the west, Eritrea to the north, the province of Wollo and Gonder to the south, and Afar land to the east.
		Amharic was taught in schools throughout Tigray as a subject as well as a medium of instruction for all subjects until seventh grade.
		In Tigray children are taught to respect parents, the elderly and to be honest early on by their parents.
	ethnomed.org /cultures/tigrean/tig_cp.html (1987 words)

	SANDINO SUNRISE: A journey through the new Nicaragua - NI 156 - Reviews
		Peberdy went to the Ethiopian province of Tigray and found that: 'if the face of what appears to be overwhelming odds the people of Tigray have formed a relief organisation.
		Tigray has constantly appealed to the Ethiopian government to allow food convoys to pass safely, but the government has said that this would be 'helping the enemy'.
		Tigray is an impoverished province in one of the world's poorest countries.
	www.newint.org /issue156/reviews.htm (1732 words)

	Donors review foreign aid to Ethiopia
		Although a clique from Tigray heads the perpetrators in Ethiopia, the repression of the people of Tigray is at least as intensive as in the other regions.
		The relative size of prison and beggar population is the highest in Tigray.
		The plight and resentment among the peasants in Tigray is evident.
	www.debteraw.com /Article-kahsay-III.htm (1480 words)

	mesfin_arega1
		In fact, Tigray being the cradle of Ethiopia, and I being a passionate believer in Ethiopia the idea – Ethiopia the religion – no one would be happier to see Tigray prosper.
		Unlike the other regions of Ethiopia, Meles’s Tigray is governed by a strong “local” government with no “minority” rights at all, even though the region includes sizable Amhara and Oromo populations, especially in the newly annexed lands.
		Meles is using famine to advance his own Tigray- Tigrin agenda - be it resettling Tigreans in lands annexed from other provinces of Ethiopia, or amassing huge sum of money to “build” Tigray and, of course, enrich his own coffer.
	www.ethiox.com /articles/mesfin_arega1.html (4430 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ethiopia
		Tigray province in the high, remote North is the ancient spiritual home of Ethiopia, mesmerizing in its rugged, isolated, hard beauty.
		From remote Tigray Birhan was flown to London in October.
		Now aged 23, Birhan is in her second year of Agricultural College and she hopes to later combine this with a degree in nursing to prepare her for work among poor farm families in the largely impoverished northern provinces of Ethiopia.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/ethiopia (1960 words)

	ethiopundit: On the Origins Of The TPLF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the 20th century the relative disenfranchisement of Tigray by the central government was widely resented because other provinces such as Shoa, the center of rule, and Eritrea, the prodigal province returned from Italy, were the major targets for the national budget.
		However, in Tigray the combination of the above factors with grinding rural poverty on farmland long past its prime, famine, the brutal depridations of the Mengistu regime after 1974 and the adoption of Marxist-Leninist ideology led to the creation of a force rooted in both the old and the new that took over the center.
		The imposition of central control, domination by the Showan-Amhara ruling class, heavy taxation, and the failure of leaders to improve the wretched life of the people, including that of the Showan peasantry whose life was no better than that of the rest of the peasant population, were sources of complaint in every forum.
	ethiopundit.blogspot.com /2004/10/on-origins-of-tplf.html (4495 words)

	Tigrinya People Profile
		The term Tigray is used in Ethiopia for both the people and their province.
		The Tigrinya of Eritrea are the same culturally and linguistically as the Tigray (sometimes spelled Tigrai) of Tigray (also sometimes spelled Tigrai) Province of Ethiopia.
		The Tigray of Tigray Province joined this movement after the communist Derg overthrew the feudal monarchy of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974.
	www.orvillejenkins.com /profiles/tigrinya.html (2480 words)

	Poverty (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In contrast, while Wollo province did not engage in active resistance to the socialist government that followed Selassie, Tigray province did.
		The author discusses the use of cultural symbols by resistance leaders in Tigray: coercion and propaganda to establish a creative and stable relationship with the rural poor and rally them to support resistance.
		The ability of the leaders of the ethnic based resistance of Tigray province were able to maintain social order and prevented massive social degradation in the region is also examined.
	poverty2.forumone.com.cob-web.org:8888 /library/view/5838 (399 words)

	SudanTribune article : Sudan delegation visit Ethiopia’s Meleke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Authorities of the eastern Sudan province of Gedarif and the Ethiopian Regional State of Tigray on the occasion said they would exert efforts to enhance the implementation of agreements signed under the framework of the cooperation between Ethiopia and Sudan.
		Tigray State Deputy Chief Abadi Zemona, Mekele city mayor Megistu Yitbarek, religious fathers and bureau heads accorded the delegation a warm welcome upon arrival at the Alula Aba Nega Airport.
		Tigray State and Gedarif Province administrators said they would strive towards strengthening the implementation of the common development projects and help cement the cooperation between Ethiopia and Sudan.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=13832 (276 words)

	'Face' of '84 famine urges action to break cycle of aid \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		She and her surviving family met with Band Aid organizer Bob Geldof, and she was introduced to British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Ethiopia this month to mark the 20th anniversary of the aid effort.
		Weldu Menameno, her father, recounted how he and his family left his drought-stricken village in Tigray province, the epicenter of the crisis, and joined thousands of people in search of food in Mekele, 500 miles north of the capital, Addis Ababa.
		Twenty years later, the family is still in Tigray, living on $60 a month from farming and charity.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/43888 (680 words)

	Tigrean
		- Tigray is in northern Africa in the northernmost section of Ethiopia. Sudan is the only other country that borders the province of Tigray, otherwise it is bordered by other provinces of Ethiopia.
		They have their own unique language and alphabet called Tigy. The language is used in Tigray and Eritrea, a neighboring province. Their language became the official language when independence was won from Ethiopia. Until 1991, the people were very oppressed and could not use their language or other cultural symbols.
		Axum is a small town in the center of Tigray. The people use it so symbolize national consciousness and cultural pride.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/tigreans.html (145 words)

	Blue Nile Gorge: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These are well exposed in Shewa Province in the Abay (Upper Blue Nile) River Basin and in Tigray Province in the area around Mekele (Getaneh, 1991; Kazmin, 1973, 1975).
		Southeastern Plateau: Sediments of possible Late Permian through Late Jurassic age are present in Harerge Province in the region of Harer approximately 400 km east of Addis Ababa.
		The geology of the region around the base of Mount Hakim near Harer was studied by Mühlen (1931) who reported finding fossil fish teeth and bones identified as Lepidotus suggesting a Triassic or Early Jurassic age of the Lower Sandstone Unit.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /mesozoic/bluenile/blue1.html (347 words)

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		Peasant farmers in Tigray have reported being bombed while they plowed their fields, and refugees from western Eritrea living in Sudan reported losing livestock to bombing raids.
		Meqelle is the capital of Tigray province, and these raids indicated that the Ethiopian government was willing to destroy even its major cities should they fall into rebel hands.
		Wollega province, in the west of the country, is the scene of fighting between the government and the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
	www.hrw.org /reports/archives/africa/ETHIOPIA907.htm (9132 words)

	We Feel Cheated
		In those days, of course, what is now Asmara was a mere village in Tigray – and Eritrea was not then even a figment of human imagination.
		There is no doubting the fact that there is an urgent need for peace to prevail in the world in general and in Africa in particular.
		Surely, Badme has been part and parcel of the Tigray province of Ethiopia for centuries on end; and no conceivable force in the world can alter this immutable truth of history.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/10/31-10-03/We.htm (708 words)

	Amhara People Profile
		The two peoples were united over the centuries in the Amhara-Tigray empire, called Abyssinia, from the name for a group of the Tigray people at that time, the Habash.
		Amhara have not been as prominent since the revolution led by the Tigray and Oromo people, but they remain involved because of their previous political expertise.
		For the Amhara people, the average life expectancy is around 46, compared to 75 years in the U.S.A. For the Amhara people, there is one doctor per 28,000 patients and one nurse per 8,393 patients.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/amhara.html (2148 words)

	* Tigre, Tigrinya, Tigray -- Ethnicites, Languages and Politics *
		The term "Tigre" also appears as the Amharic version of the Tigrinya name "Tigray." The latter is, of course, also the form generally used in Amharic as the name for the Ethiopian province where Tigrinya-speaking people live.
		In general, likewise, the term "Tigray" (or in transliterated Amharic "Tigre") is used to describe the people who speak Tigrinya on the Ethiopian side of the border.
		The forms "Tigray" and "Tigre" are phonetic forms of the same root used in different ways among the three languages and cultures.
	orvillejenkins.com /peoples/tigretigraytigrinya.html (1845 words)

	Letter to President Issayas Afeworki
		First: The Northwestern mountains and plains(Northren Sahel): its border extends adjacent to the seacoast from the eastern coast Gulf of Zula in the East to the Sudanese border in the West and from the Red Sea in the North to the valley of Setit in the South.
		This province includes the plains of Gash, Barka, Anseba River valley, the plains and hills of Semhar and the highlands of the northern coast.
		At the beginning of the armed struggle some doubted the intentions and motives of the revolution, labeled it as Arab or Islamic and sometimes fought it under different pretexts because the revolution had symbolized the social and cultural choices of the Muslims in general and the western lowlands in particular.
	dekebat-eritra.com /Eritrean_Federal.html (7799 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight \| Ethiopians move for food security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Life on the Ethiopian highlands in Tigray province is nasty, brutish and short.
		Some 95% of people live on the land, eking out a living on thin, rocky soil that has been over-farmed and yields barely a subsistence existence.
		Tigray has been described as the "Rolls Royce" of resettlement programmes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4312717.stm (925 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Don't forget it is UEDF who is pleading for the respect of the right of Ethiopians in Tigray province while TPLF says Tigrean territories should be given to Eritrea.
		One cannot therefore doubt even for a second that, UEDF, the gurdian of the interests of the inhabitants of Tigray province is considered as their true leader although some elements may try to portray UEDF as a monster ready to devour Tigray.
		I believe that the inhabitants of Tigray will never forget the very patriotic and decisive help they received from their brothers and sisters in other parts of Ethiopia.
	www.ethiopiafirst.com /news2003/Sept/NEGATIVE_PEACE.html (2707 words)

	Tigrey Issue
		Like the "independent" nation of Eritrea, Tigray Province today has its own independent foreign policy and foreign trade ministries; no other province in Ethiopia is entitled to the same privileges.
		We now should demand that they be the primary beneficiaries of their own laws: they should be deported to their own kilil, and Ethiopia as a nation should secede from the Tigrigna-speaking regions of the Provinces of Tigray and Mereb Melash.
		His other argument, that Ethiopia in not Ethiopia without Tigray, is wrong, since the Aksumite Empire also comprised most of Mereb Melash including Hamassen, Akele Guzai, Serae and the Red Sea port of Adulis, not far from Massawa.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/sellassie/politics/tigrey.html (5392 words)

	alf
		During the struggle period the ALF was working on common platform to fight the common enemy with the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) despite our differences on major issues such as TPLF preposterous claim the Afar's land in Tigray province as their own and not as an integral part of Afar region.
		In the boarder region with Tigray now known as zone two and four, the ALF was bared from conducting political activities.
		During this period TPLF confiscated sizeable Afar areas bordering Tigray region such as in Berahle district, Dedliso, Kudah, in Konneba district, Goua, Bonah, in Magale district, Arado, in Dallol district, Daga Giff (renamed Sebeba after confiscation be TPLF), and Aynedib.
	www.arhotabba.com /alf.html (4296 words)

	Settle the Ethio-Eritrean war but not on US terms
		At the time the Tigray province, south of Eritrea, was fighting for greater autonomy, not secession.
		It was incorporated as a province of Ethiopia in 1962, and an armed campaign for independence started the same year.
		These nationalities are so outraged by the Tigray behaviour that when the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces clashed after May 16, they issued statements in Addis Ababa saying they were not a party to the war, which concerned only the Tigray in the north of the country and the Eritreans.
	www.muslimedia.com /ARCHIVES/special98/ethiowar.htm (1104 words)

	Book Review -Agazi, Tigress, Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (African ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is a well-researched account in which the authors draw upon a comprehensive range of archival material and complement it with the substantive testimony of those who were either directly involved or who had close associations with those who were.
		The Author former Tigray Regional Parliament Speaker, Dr Solomon Inquai has gone to great length to explain the unexplainable and the genesis of the recent war.
		The book will be available during the Tigray Festival in the first week of August in Washington DC and can also be ordered by emailing to Aigaforum Admins at admin@aigaforum.com The price is $20.00
	www.tigrai.org /TNEducation/bookReview.htm (801 words)

	Ethiopianet - Tigrayans: guardians of the Ark
		In Tigray stands the Chapel of the Ark of the Covenant, one of the reasons for the region's importance and its attraction on Europeans in the past 1500 years.
		The TPLF draws most of its support from Tigrayans living in Tigray province.
		Following the independence of Eritrea, in which half of the total population is Tigrayan, the number of Tigray residents in Ethiopia became halved.
	home.planet.nl /~romei017/ethiopianet-peoples-section-tigrayans.htm (197 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Tigreans in Ethiopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Currently, Tigreans possess special status within Ethiopian politics and society with the best official posts, military positions, and university slots allotted to those of the Tigray province.
		Although representing only one-tenth of Ethiopia’s population, the Tigreans have been the dominant ethnopolitical group in Ethiopia since 1991 and the defeat of Mengistu’s army (in coaltion with the Amharian Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP)) by the TPLF (led by Meles Zenawi), which later organized into the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
		The EPRDF has ruled Ethiopia for the last decade and gains its support mainly from Tigreans living in the northern Tigray province (GROUPCON = 3).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=53006 (443 words)

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