Yeshaq

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Yeshaq († 1578 ) was the ruler ( Bahr Negash ) of the Mdre Bahri region , which roughly corresponds to today's Eritrea , during the reign of the Ethiopian emperors Claudius and Minas - around the middle of the 16th century .

During the Turkish-Portuguese War (1538–1557) Yeshaq supported the Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama in the fight against Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi . He conquered large areas that had been occupied by the Ottomans under Suleyman I with Ethiopian help. Among them were the cities of Hergigo and Debarwa ; he made the latter his capital.

From 1560 he initiated an uprising against the new emperor Minas and, after his early death, continued this against his son Sarsa Dengel , receiving support from Ozdemur , the Ottoman pasha of Massaua . At the end of 1578, however, he and the Pasha were defeated and killed by Sarsa Dengel in the Tigray region .

Historians disagree as to whether Bahri was an independent kingdom at that time, with occasional changing alliances, or a province with a governor appointed by the Ethiopian emperor. The background is the disputes over the independence of Eritrea and the attempts to establish a distinctive Eritrean history on the one hand and to negate it on the other.

further reading

  • Andrzej Bartnicki, Joanna Mantel-Niecko: History of Ethiopia. From the beginning to the present . Edited by Renate Richter. 2 parts. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
  • Richard KR Pankhurst in: The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles . Oxford University Press, Addis Ababa 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Connell, Tom Killion: Historical Dictionary of Eritrea . Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7505-0 , pp. xxx Chronology ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Eritrea. In: CIA World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency , accessed August 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ Franz Amadeus Dombrowski: Ethiopia's Access to the Sea , Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1985, pp. 20-23
  4. ↑ Mussie Habte: Nation building in a multi-ethnic state . LIT Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11315-3 , p. 530 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Yeshaq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ruler (Bahr Negash) of the Mdre Bahri region
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1578