Bilen (people)

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The Bilen or Blin (alternative names: Bogos, Bilayn, Bilin, Balen, Beleni, Belen, Bilein, Bileno, or North Agaw ) are a Hamitic pastoral people from the 1200 meter high plateau and mountainous country in the north of Abyssinia , which up to 16½ ° north latitude is enough, here in terraces, in the east it drops steeply into the coastal plain and in the west it descends to the plain of the Barka .

They are 50-55% Sunni Muslims and the rest are predominantly Catholic Christians.

The main river of the country is the Anseba ( Ain-Saba ), which flows in a north and north-west direction and joins the Chor-Barka , which flows to the north .

The country has a rich flora and fauna, huge baobab trees , sycamores and tamarinds , rhinos, elephants , buffalo , antelopes and wild boars , even lions , leopards , wild cats , wolves , jackals , hyenas , snakes and turtles . The climate is one of the mildest and most pleasant in Africa ; the rainy season occurs twice but lasts only two months.

The Bilen first became better known through the Swiss Werner Munzinger (1855 to 1860) and the East African expedition under Theodor von Heuglin (1861) as well as through the journey of Duke Ernst von Coburg-Gotha (1862).

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