Begemder
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Begemder (በጌምድር bägemdər [ bəɡemdɨr ], also Gondar or Gonder after the capital ) was a province in northwest Ethiopia .
There are several theories about the origin of the name. One is: from Bega ( Bedscha ) and meder (Land) (here the land of the Bega or Bedscha is meant), according to an inscription from Emperor Ezanas of Aksum , who called for the resettlement of 4,400 defeated Bedschas in a province of Matlia , whose location is still unknown is describes.
Another assumption is that the first two syllables come from the ancient Ethiopian word baggi` for sheep ( Amharic bäg ), but sheep were never grazed there, and Beke believes that this is not possible either. Beckingham and Huntingford note that Begemder actually refers to the area west of Lake Tana where water is scarce, and note that the lack of water points to bäga ("dry season") as the source of the name.
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The earliest recorded mention of Begemder is on Fra Mauro's world map around 1460, where it is described as a kingdom. Emperor Lebna Dengel also described Begemder in his letter to the King of Portugal in 1526 as a kingdom that was part of his empire .
In 1942 Semien was united with Begemder. After a new constitution was adopted in Ethiopia in 1995, Begemder was divided between the new regions of Benishangul-Gumuz ( Metekel Zone ), Tigray ( Mi'irabawi Zone ), and Amhara .
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- ^ Munro-Hay, Stuart. Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), pp. 48.
- ↑ CF Beckingham and GWB Huntingford, Some records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954), pp. 230f
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