camel Eritrean website featuring resources relevant to Tigre history and culture
 
 
ሰልፍ ሃዳጊት  ናይ  ትግረ  ዲብ  ኢንተርነት  -   موقع إريتري يعرض مواضيع ذات الصلة إلى تاريخ وثقافةالتجرى

HISTORY AND LANGUAGE OF THE

TIGRE-SPEAKING PEOPLES

As with other regions in the Horn of Africa, nation-based traditions of historiography and epistemologies in this area have usually perceived the space inhabited by Tigre-speaking societies as somewhat on the margins, on the very periphery of the dominant historical polities in the broader area, and perhaps especially so vis-à-vis the highland ‘Abyssinian’ polity in its various historic configurations. While stimulating studies on areas and communities of western and southern Ethiopia have been carried out and published in the 1980s and since, little has been done in that respect in the northern parts of the Horn, including the Tigre area.

 

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TUNES OF THE HARP

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LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

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THE INVINCIBLE

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90% of the credit of preserving Eritrea in one piece goes to Ibrahim Sultan Ali.

Woldeab Woldemariam

 

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht,

 

 

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

    Dalai Lama

 

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

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About Tigre music 

 

In Eritrea, music is an integral part of daily life. Songs accompany the rites of passage, work and entertainment. They were also important in the life of the traditional Tigre courts, and are still used for political comment, especially in Barka.   

 

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Ibrahim Sultan Ali

The father of the nation

Ibrahim Sultan Ali was born in Keren in March 1909 of a farmer/trader Tigre/serf from the Rugbat of Ghizghiza district in Sahel. He attended Quran School under Khalifa Jaafer of the Halanga of Kassala. In Keren, he attended technical training at Salvaggio Raggi and at Umberto School in Asmara. His only son Abdulwahab, lives in Paris.

 

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A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF

ISLAM IN ERITREA

 BY JONATHAN MIRAN Bellingham, Wash., U.S.A. 

 

The study of Islam in Eritrea the faith of approximately half of the country’s population is still in its infancy. Similar to other fields of scholarly inquiry regarding Eritrea, research on the historyof Islam in the region has become more feasible only since the early 1990s as the newly independent state became accessible to researchers, both locally-based and foreign.

 

Richard Sundström
The physician and the researcher.


Richard Sundström was born in 1869, he was a minister of religion. In those days it was not unusual to complement religious studies with other knowledge that’s why Richard went to the United Kingdom to study tropical diseases and qualified as a physician
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Understanding the Tigre knowledge and information system.

 

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Tigre, Tigray, Tigrinya

Ethnicites, Languages and Politics

Dr.Orville Boyd Jenkins

Sources of information on the peoples of the horn of Africa are sometimes confusing because of conflicting terminology. Names of peoples and languages differ due to different names used in the Amharic or Tigrinya. 

 

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Nefae Utman

Great Works That Need To Be Found

 

The incident happened more than 100 years ago; but its significance, mystery and strangeness still keeps it important. The story of a young Eritrean begins in a village called Gheleb, 60 kms from Keren; but it is still unknown where it ends.

 

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IN THE BOGOS' COUNTRY   (By Mrs. Luisa Reinische)

 

In this country there are about 30 villages and 20,000 peoples. like an island on the sea or an oasis in a desert, that happy land is confined with mountains of natural bulwark.

 

 

Tigre Language

 Strong Base for a Bright Future
Dessale Bereket

Tigre language is one of the Semitic languages spoken in Eritrea. It is the second most spoken language (following Tigrigna) in the country. However, its speakers are widely distributed over the country. 

 

BIBLIOTHECA ABESSINICA
STUDIES CONCERNING THE LANGUAGES,
LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ABYSSINIA
Edited by Dr. E. LITTMANN
THE LEGEND OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA IN THE TRADITION OF AXUM

Walis of massawa (governors) of Eritrea

Triple Take: Tigre and the case of internal 

      reduplication Sharon Rose, University of

      California, San Diego

THE GREETING OF THE TIGRE PEOPLE

Who is Richard Sundstrom?

THE NAMES OF SWORDS.

The tribes of Sahel, and others.

The camel in Eritrea: an all-

     purpose animal T. Gebrehiwet
NAMES OF PERSONS IN THE

    TIGRE COUNTRY.
 

 

 

The Seen, the Unseen,the Invented Misrepresentations of African "Otherness" in the Making of a Colony. Eritrea, 1885-1896 Silvana Palma -

 

Some Tigre Texts with transliteration and translation

 

Eritrean Atudies Review

Eritrea Re-photographed Landscape changes in the Eritrean highlands 1890 – 2004 An Environmental-Historical Study Based on the Reconstruction of Historical photographs

HOW WE MANAGED TO LIVE AT MASSAWAH: By HENRY BL.ANC, M.D., MI.R.C.S.E., F.R.G.S., etc.,  Staff-Assistant-Surgeon, Bombay Army.

Re-reading the Short and Long-Rigged History of Eritrea 1941–1952: Back to the Future? Nordic Journal of African Studies

Up to date Assessment of the results of the research on the Dahalik language (December 1966 – December 2005) Marie-Cloude SIMEONE-SENELLE Director of Research

Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea. African Studies Review, Apr 2003 by Woldemikael, Tekle M.

The Habab and Hedareb SUDAN NOTES AND RECORDS VOL.36, 1955, KHARTOUM

Blin Orthography: A History and an Assessment. Paul D. Fallon University of Mary Washington (2006)

Political History of Eritrea before colonisation (1865-1885)Wolbert Smidt: The example of the Blin people


THE MAKING OF UNLEAVENED BREAD IN THE TIGRE COUNTRY


Memories of a British envoy to Abyssinia's Emperor Theodore.

MULTI-LINGUALISM AND THE OFFICAL LANGUAGE IN ERITREA

How king Solomon begat king Menelik .  Tigre - English Text and translation

English translation of a few old writings in

    Tigre, collected by the Swedish missionary

     Richard Sundström on the history of Keren

      area 19th century.

 

Names of families and tribes.
     Sundstrom, Richard

 

NAMES OF SHE-CAMELS

WAR-CRIES (seQrat)

Books on Tigre

Gift of Incense: A Book Review

Recording major events in Tigre

Qelat (Beni Amir & Mensa)

Tigre proverbs

Mensa and Bet-Tawke

The destruction of the Bet-Abgal

The story of Zenaj and Mahari

The dissensions between the Adshebo

Tigre Folktales

Tigre stories