I don't even believe you believe what you wrote. And contrary to what you said, there is no inscriptions of Habashats found anywhere from the time of Daamat. There's hardly any inscriptions that refer to Daamat to begin with. As to your claim that these incense gatherers from Yemen aka Habashats crossed the Red Sea and mixed with the local inhabitants is simply false.
A the archaeology does not back this up; B Aside from interpretations by colonial-era historians, there is no proof to continue believing in this fairytale; and C everyone knows Habeshas can't swim :- Splash!
But in all seriousness, Professor Peter R. Schmidt, who is arguably one of the leading archaeologist of this region, along with other archaeologists, have dismissed this claim as nothing more than an outdated 'myth'. Eritrean gladiator, I simply fail to understand your aversion to truth. Firstly I am eritrean, you talking about my ethnicity and insulting me really just shows your maturity in this matter. Anyways back to the topic at hand, my suggestion to you is to read the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and books on south arabian civilizations look up tihama cultural complex.
If I can't convince you then maybe the research will. None the less you are right, I was wrong about Hbst being referred to that early.. So at least we know the mukkaribs ie leaders of d'mt were south arabian at least these three were Hywt, RBH, and LMN but Rd'm can also be inffered to be of this clan considering all the rest are from it as well.
And finally how on earth can you say there was no migration while at the same time our forefather's language ge'ez was south semitic and therefore either it or its ancestor had to have come from south arabia. This and the fact that genetics also shows it as well. Its quite undeniable. Wie found the Word habesha in Hieroglyphe. It is stupid to beliebe that it is a foreign Word. The andient egyptians are descendands of habeshas from todays Eritrea northern ethiopia. I am not habehsan just Eritrean only and i am proud of it Habesha is for Ethiopians.
Haha a crazy arab is better than educated Shabian…Where the hell did you come from? You sounds like an Eritrean-Arab and non Eritrean Habesha The devil Prefer to comes as an angel of the light and you are trying to deny our origin as Habesha, but that is not possible, because our roots are still in the bottom and we all know who we are. The nazis used to try to come up with some of the wall restory not history about their ancestors too.
Eritrean identity is based on a schizophrenic sense of identity. Keep lying to yourselves. Same language,same hairstyle same religion same food not basta shuta from signore but tsebhi, if Ou can find taff Kikikikikiki. We really don't need other terms to describe us event if that word is the word Habesh. Let Eritreans be known as Eritreans from coast to coast and those who want to hold on the word habesha they can do so but shouldn't give it priority to the name Eritrea.
Eritrea seeks peace in the region but at the same time its swords are sharpened to perfection and intact and ready all the time. Asmara the true capital of all the Hamsian people by this i mean the whole horn of Africa. The name Eritrea is known only some yers when u colonize by Italy. Eventhough to Italians who gave us the name Eritreans our forefathers were considered as animals and subhumans?
In a sane world, it should be clear. Italians created the first and the worst apartheid system in the world, worst than South Africa's. And we are proud to be called Eritreans by the name our slavemasters picked for us.
Actually its not before then it was called Medri Bahri. Hahahahahaha Very funny. OK good. Be Eritreans not Habesha. So who cares? Denying yourself is the lowest of lowest in life. Good luck with who ever you are. Then that will cleanse you from the horrible evil name called Habesha. It will sure give you a cleaner Eritrea. Be dears now. He is a very loving man, who served his country in war but holds no hate.
He loves Ethiopia, and proud Eritrean. With that being said, he would always tell me the use of the word Habesha was an insult by the arabs. He said the were calling us mixed donkeys cuz they couldnt understand our linage. The word pretty much means nigger. He also said it was a good way to encourage people to forget who they are. Within Eritrean and Ethiopians today it is a word used out of insecurity to blurr lines. Most believe it is a word used to unite these two countries.
The practice of asking where u are from has died and so is a small part of our culture. People are so senstive today that asking if one is Eritrean or Ethiopina can literally alarm a room. I truly believe that this is the biggest reasons that word is so popular today. It's funny to see Ethiopians get offended because Eritreans don't like the term of Habesha. Take it easy nasty-southern neighbours. By the way the Agame are well known for their hard work and entrepreneurship throughout Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Hello Habesha people My dad is Eritrean my mom is Ethiopian Habesha is a term Ethiopians and Eritreans use to refer to themselves.
Habesha is a term of pride and used to eliminate the distinction between different tribes and celebrate unity as people of the same region. For example : You ask "Are you habesha?
Habesha is a word used to refer to both Eritreans and Ethiopians, or, more specifically, to the Semitic-speaking inhabitants of those countries. The first inscription to refer to "Habesha" is a Sabaean South Arabian inscription ca. The term was translated by the famous Christian King Ezana of Aksum in the mid 4th century as "Ethiopia" in Greek, which previously referred to Africa south of Egypt in general, or Nubia in modern-day Sudan in particular.
The term is not, as commonly assumed, of Arabic origin, but of local Semitic origin. Spurious Arabic etymologies tend to connect the term with the meaning "mixed," on the false assumption that the peoples of the Horn of Africa are the product of African-Arab mixes.
The term was also used by the Turks as "Habesh" or "Habeshistan" to refer to their small territory taken from Ethiopia in , comprising of the port cities of Massawa and Hergigo Habeshistan also included Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the capital of the province, Suwakin in Sudan, and Aden in Yemen.
Shamir of Dhu-Raydan and Himyar had called in the help of the clans of Habashat for war against the kings of Saba. Amharic: Are you habesha? Abyssinian warlords often competed with each other for dominance of the realm. The Amharas seemed to gain the upper hand with the accession of Yekuno Amlak of Ancient Bete Amhara in , after defeating the Agaw lords of Lasta in those days a non-Semitic-speaking region of Abyssinia. The Gondarian dynasty, which since the 16th century had become the centre of Royal pomp and ceremony of Abyssinia, finally lost its influence as a result of the emergence of powerful regional lords, following the murder of Iyasu I, also known as Iyasu the Great.
The emperors were considered to be figureheads. Until a young man named Kassa Haile Giorgis also known as Emperor Tewodros brought end to Zemene Mesafint by defeating all his rivals and took the throne in The Tigrayans made only a brief return to the throne in the person of Yohannes IV in , whose death in resulted in the power base shifting back to the dominant Amharic-speaking elite.
League of Nations in reported that after the invasion of Meneliks forces into non Abyssinian lands of Somalis, Harari, Oromo, Sidama, Shanqella etc, the inhabitants were enslaved and heavily taxed by the gebbar system leading to depopulation. Some scholars consider the Amhara to have been Ethiopias ruling elite for centuries, represented by the Solomonic line of Emperors ending in Haile Selassie I. Marcos Lemma and other scholars dispute the accuracy of such a statement, arguing that other ethnic groups have always been active in the countrys politics.
This confusion may largely stem from the mislabeling of all Amharic-speakers as "Amhara", and the fact that many people from other ethnic groups have adopted Amharic names. Another is the claim that most Ethiopians can trace their ancestry to multiple ethnic groups, including the last self-proclaimed emperor Haile Selassie I and his Empress Itege Menen Asfaw of Ambassel.
Solomon is said in this account to have seduced the Queen, and sired a son by her, who would eventually become Menelik I, the first Emperor of Ethiopia. The tradition that the biblical Queen of Sheba was an ingenuous ruler of Ethiopia who visited King Solomon in Jerusalem is repeated in a 1st-century account by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus.
There is no primary evidence, archaeological or textual, for the queen in Ethiopia. The impressive ruins at Aksum are a thousand years too late for a queen contemporary with Solomon, based on traditional dates for him of the 10th century BC.
In the past, European scholars including Hiob Ludolf and Carlo Conti Rossini postulated that the ancient communities that evolved into the modern Ethiopian state were formed by a migration across the Red Sea of Semitic-speaking South Arabians around BC, who intermarried with local non-Semitic-speaking peoples.
Both the indigenous languages of Southern Arabia and the Amharic and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia belong to the large branch of South Semitic languages which in turn is part of the Afro-Asiatic Language Family. Even though the Ethiosemitic languages are classified under the South Semitic languages branch with a Cushitic language substratum, Edward Ullendorff and Carlo Conti Rossinis theory that Ethioemitic-language speakers of the northern Ethiopian Highlands were ancient foreigners from Southwestern Arabia has been disputed by most modern indigenous Horn African scholars like Messay Kebede and Daniel E.
Scholars have determined that the ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia was not derived from an Old South Arabian language such as Sabaean. There is also evidence of ancient Southern Arabian communities in modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea in certain localities, attested by some archaeological artifacts and ancient Sabaean inscriptions in the old South Arabian alphabet.
Archeological evidence has revealed a region called Saba in Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea; it is now referred to as "Ethiopian Saba" to avoid confusion. Essentially no archaeological evidence supports the story of the Queen of Sheba. In the reign of King Ezana, c.
This is the first known use of this term to describe specifically the region known today as Ethiopia and not Kush or the entire African and Indian region outside of Egypt. Fleminga Grahamiana. Other place names in Yemen contain the hbs root, such as the Jabal Habasi, whose residents are still called al-Ahbus pl.
King Ezanas claims to Sahlen Saba and Dhu-Raydan Himyar during a time when such control was unlikely may indicate an Aksumite presence or coastal foothold. Traditional scholarship has assumed that the Habashat were a tribe from modern-day Yemen that migrated to Ethiopia and Eritrea. However, the Sabaic inscriptions only use the term hbst to the refer to the Kingdom of Aksum and its inhabitants, especially during the 3rd century, when the hbst Aksumites were often at war with the Sabaeans and Himyraites.
Before the 20th century, the Sabean theory was the most common one explaining the origins of the Habesha. It was first suggested by German orientalist Hiob Ludolf and revived by early 20th-century Italian scholar Conti Rossini.
They said that at an early epoch, South Arabian tribes, including one called the Habashat," emigrated across the Red Sea from Yemen to Eritrea. According to this theory, Sabaeans brought with them South Arabian letters and language, which gradually evolved into the Geez language and Geez script.
Linguists have revealed, however, that although its script developed from Epigraphic South Arabian whose oldest inscriptions are found in Yemen, Ethiopia and Eritrea used to write the Old South Arabian languages, Geez is descended from a different branch of Semitic, Ethiosemitic or Ethiopic sub-branch.
The large corpus of South Arabian inscriptions does not mention any migration to the west coast of the Red Sea, nor of a tribe called "Habashat.
In the 21st century, the Sabean theory has largely been abandoned. While most Westerners today and some Horn Africans influenced by German anthropologists, have agreed with the South Arabian origin theory, most indigenous Abyssinian historians even prior to the 21st Century have always refuted these claims.
Edward Ullendorff and Carlo Conti Rossinis theory that Ethioemitic-language speakers of the northern Ethiopian Highlands were ancient foreigners from Southwestern Arabia that displaced the original peoples of the Horn, has been disputed by most modern indigenous Horn African scholars like Messay Kebede, Daniel E.
Alemu, and others. Genetically, culturally, and geographically speaking Habeshas Abyssinian people are traditionally Cushitic Peoples. Ethiopia and Sudan are among the main areas linguists suggest were the Afro-Asiatic Urheimat. Recent linguistic studies as to the origin of the Ethiosemitic languages seem to support the DNA findings of immigration from the Arabian Peninsula, with a recent study using Bayesian computational phylogenetic techniques finding that "contemporary Ethiosemitic languages of Africa reflect a single introduction of early Ethiosemitic from southern Arabia approximately 2.
There are many theories regarding the beginning of the Abyssinian civilization. One theory, which is more widely accepted today, locates its origins in the Horn region, while Westerners acknowledging the influence of the Sabeans on the opposite side of the Red Sea. At a later period, this culture was exposed to Judaic influence, of which the best-known examples are the Qemant and Ethiopian Jews or Beta Israel ethnic groups, but Judaic customs, terminology, and beliefs can be found amongst the dominant culture of the Amhara and Tigrinya.
Some scholars have claimed that the Indian alphabets had been used to create the vowel system of the Geez abugida, this claim has not yet been effectively proven. The Habesha developed an agricultural society, which most continue, including raising of camels, donkeys, and sheep. They plow using oxen. The Orthodox Church is an integral part of the culture. The church buildings are built on hills.
Major celebrations during the year are held around the church, where people gather from villages all around to sing, play games, and observe the unique mass of the church. It includes a procession through the church grounds and environs.
Coffee is a very important ceremonial drink. The "coffee ceremony" is common to the Ethiopians and Eritreans. Beans are roasted on the spot, ground, and brewed, served thick and rich in tiny ceramic cups with no handles. This amount of coffee can be finished in one gulp if drunk cold; but, traditionally it is drunk very slowly as conversation takes place.
When the beans are roasted to smoking, they are passed around the table, where the smoke becomes a blessing on the diners.
The traditional food served at these meals consists of injera, a spongy flat bread, served with wat, a spicy meat sauce. Houses in rural areas are built mostly from rock and dirt, the most available resources, with structure provided by timber poles.
The houses blend in easily with the natural surroundings. Many times the nearest water source is more than a kilometer away from the house. In addition, people must search for fuel for their fires throughout the surrounding area. The Habesha people have a rich heritage of music and dance, using drums and stringed instruments tuned to a pentatonic scale. Arts and crafts and secular music are performed mostly by artisans, who are regarded with suspicion. Sacred music is performed and icons are painted only by men trained in monasteries.
Abyssinians speak languages belonging to the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. Among these tongues is the classical Geez language. Later, an independent script replaced it as early as the 5th century BCE. Geez literature is considered to begin with the adoption of Christianity in Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as the civilization of Axum in the 4th century BCE during the reign of Ezana.
Geez language is ancestral to Tigre and Tigrinya languages. Some historians in the past have labelled the Ethiopian Semitic languages as the Abyssinian languages. Their written accounts about their experiences include observations and descriptions of the Abyssinian customs and manners. Habesha cuisine characteristically consists of vegetable and often very spicy meat dishes, usually in the form of wat also wet or wot, a thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread, which is about 50 centimeters 20 inches in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour.
People of Ethiopia and Eritrea eat exclusively with their right hands, using pieces of injera to pick up bites of entrees and side dishes. Fit-fit, or fir-fir, is a common breakfast dish. It is made from shredded injera or kitcha stir-fried with spices or wat. Another popular breakfast food is fatira. The delicacy consists of a large fried pancake made with flour, often with a layer of egg, eaten with honey.
Chechebsa or kita firfir resembles a pancake covered with berbere and niter kibbeh, or spices, and may be eaten with a spoon.
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