Hegeno

For a few years in the Middle Ages, Hegeno was the title of the imperial administrator of the Islamic border areas in the southeast of imperial Ethiopia . Before these administrators were appointed, the Islamic rulers and tribal princes of these areas held the title of Gerad . After Emperor Zara Yaqob ( 1434 - 1468 ) failed with his plan to tie the Gerad of Bali closer to Ethiopia by marrying his sister, he unceremoniously had the territories of all Gerad militarily occupied. He abolished the title Straight and replaced it with that of Hegeno, the imperial administrator. In order to avoid the obvious impression of a Christian administration of the Islamic areas, only Muslims were appointed as Hegenos by the emperor . However, managed Emperor Beyde Maryam I. (1468- 1478 ), the successor of Zera Yaeqob, the title of Hegeno again and bore the title of Gerad again.

Due to the complicated transcription from Amharic , the spelling of Ethiopian proper names can be different in different publications.