Doba (historical region)

Doba was a historical Muslim region in central modern Ethiopia.[1] Historian Fesseha Berhe associates Doba with the Saho people.[2] The people of Doba are considered extinct today.[3]

1828 map by Sidney Hall illustrating Doba region bordered by Tigray in the north and Assubo Galla (Oromo) in the south

History

Doba region was mostly populated by pastoralists.[4]

The people of Doba are linked to the Argobba aristocracy of Walasma.[5] Argobba people consider the inhabitants of Doba their ancestors.[6] Doba territory was within the 13th century Ifat state.[7]

In the 14th century Doba neighbored Tigray, Angot, and Amhara regions of modern Ethiopia.[8]

According to Ayele Tariku, in the 1400s emperor Yeshaq I had placed a military battalion called Jan Amora near Doba country to protect the Abyssinian frontier against attacks from the people of Doba.[9]

During the reign of Emperor Baeda Maryam I in the late fifteenth century, the Doba bordering Angot are recorded to have disrupted crucial roads used for Abyssinian trade.[10] Baeda Maryam I would incorporate the Doba peoples into his army after invading their region.[11][12]

Doba are reported to have lived in Tigray Province in the 16th century.[13]

Later in the seventeenth century the induction of Doba and Harla peoples into Afar identity led to the emergence of the Aussa Sultanate.[14] During the reign of Emperor Iyasu II in the 1700s, Doba warriors attacked the Abyssinian frontier.[15]

See also


References
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  2. Berhe, Fesseha. Regional History and Ethnohistory Gerhard Rohlfs and other Germanophone Researchers and a Forgotten Ethnic Group, the Dobʿa (PDF). Mekelle University. p. 128.
  3. Levine, Donald. Greater Ethiopia The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society. University of Chicago Press. p. 69.
  4. Ahmed, Hussein. Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia. BRILL. p. 8.
  5. Kifleyesus, Abebe. Tradition and Transformation The Argobba of Ethiopia. Harrassowitz. p. 44.
  6. Asfaw, Aklilu. A short History of the Argobba. Annales d'Éthiopie. p. 179.
  7. Ifat. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
  8. Tamrat, Tadesse. Church and state (PDF). University of London. p. 154.
  9. Tariku, Ayele. The Christian Military Colonies in Medieval Ethiopia: The Chewa System. SAGE publications. pp. 179–306.
  10. Mordechai, Abir. Ethiopia and the Red Sea The Rise and Decline of the Solomonic Dynasty and Muslim European Rivalry in the Region. Taylor & Francis. pp. 34–35.
  11. Demisse, Yonas. Bringing the Slaves Back InCaptives and the Making and Unmaking of the Premodern Ethiopian State. Duke University Press. pp. 261–279.
  12. Trimingham, J.Spencer. Islam in Ethiopia. Taylor & Francis. p. 81.
  13. Cerulli, Ernesta. Peoples of South-West Ethiopia and Its Borderland North Eastern Africa Part III. Taylor & Francis.
  14. Bausi, Alessandro. Ethiopia History, Culture and Challenges. Michigan State University Press. p. 83.
  15. Budge, E.A. A History of Ethiopia: Volume II (Routledge Revivals): Nubia and Abyssinia. Routledge. p. 456.
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