Welcome,
my mission is to popularize obscure precolonial African history, with the focus being on Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. My special interest lies in the history of Christian Nubia and the Arabization of the Nubians.
For entries with major contributions of mine see below. For my stuff on Wikimedia Commons click HERE.
Entries with my involvement
editEntries I expanded to GA and FA status
edit- Mighty medieval Nubian kingdom
Entries I expanded to GA status
edit- Badly known kingdom of medieval Darfur
- Successor state of Alodia
- An obscure successor state of Alodia
- The throne hall of the Makurian kings as well as the oldest standing Sudanese mosque
Entries I created and/or significantly expanded
edit- 19th century evidence for the pre-Arabic language of the Sudanese "Arab" Ababda tribe
- About 18th century European armour
- The first 100 years of the Funj sultanate
- Obscure late 9th/early 10 century Makurian king
- Makuria
- The most famous of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms
- Military career of Muhammad: First caravan raids, Battle of Badr
- The early military confrontations of Muhammad
- Late Antique/early Medieval kingdom in Lower Nubia
- Big Thracian kingdom
- Summary of the Christian and Islamic history of Sudan
- Semi-legendary culture of Darfur
- On the cultural niveau of the Visigoths
- Everything below the "History" section
Awards
editThe Barnstar of Diligence | ||
For your outstanding work on Alodia which has brought the article from sketchy & unreferenced to readable & scholarly in 2017. Welcome back to Wikipedia and good luck with your efforts to delve into East African history. groupuscule (talk) 10:35, 14 May 2017 (UTC) |
The Africa Award | ||
It is my great pleasure to bestow a small token of appreciation for the endless work you have put into African related articles and you are hereby decorated with this Africa Award. You have made Wikipedia a better informed place - thank you. Presented by Gog the Mild (talk) 17:23, 20 May 2018 (UTC) |
The Good Article Barnstar | ||
Awarded for the continuing pursuit of excellence in African history. You have now generated half of the pre-20th century African history good articles. Impressive. Please continue to educate the world on the history of the continent. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:26, 2 November 2018 (UTC) |
Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:34, 25 April 2019 (UTC):
precolonial African history
Thank you for quality articles such as Alodia, Kingdom of Fazughli and Throne Hall of Dongola, pursuing your mission to "popularize obscure precolonial African history", for service from 2015, including map making, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
The Original Barnstar | |
Just came across your work at History of Sudan. Great work on that article!! Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:21, 12 October 2020 (UTC) |
WIP
editSanjak & Eyalet of Ibrim
editSanjak of Ibrim | |||||||||
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Sanjak of Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
c. 1560-1584 1585–x | |||||||||
Capital | Qasr Ibrim Sai | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | c. 1560 | ||||||||
1584-1585 | |||||||||
• Disestablished | 28 November 2024 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Egypt Sudan |
Eyalet of Ibrim | |||||||||
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Eyalet of Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
1584-1585 | |||||||||
Capital | Qasr Ibrim Sai | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 13 February 1584 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 25 December 1585 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Egypt Sudan |
Eyalet of Ibrim, stretching from Qena to Sukkot (André J. Veldmeijer: "Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I: Footwear from the Ottoman Period", p. 15) Berberistan Funjistan O'Fahey Spaulding 1974 p.29 Shortly before Özdemir Pasha became governor Habesh (July 1555) attempted invasion, but troops revolted (Peacock 92-94) Campaign in Mahas 1583-1584 (Peacock 97), Sanjak of Mahas appears in 1584, battle of Hannik 1585 (Peacock 96-97)
- John Alexander: "Ottoman frontier policies in northeast Africa, 1517-1914"
- John Alexander: "The Turks on the Middle Nile"
- Sanjak of Mahas 1583 (http://africanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-190)
- Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi s Matchless Pearl These Reports of the Nile map and his accounts of the Nile and the Horn of Africa in The Book of Travels
- The Ottomans and the Funj sultanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (https://www.jstor.org/stable/23258896?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)
- https://books.google.de/books?id=cQktCN8jcVcC&pg=PA35&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Sai fortress https://issuu.com/sudarchrs/docs/s_n01_alexander
- The Ottomans and Nubia in the sixteenth century http://www.ifao.egnet.net/anisl/024/06/
Rüppell
editShendi province: "Die ausschließliche Landessprache ist die arabische" (1824)
Moses George
editMoses George | |
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King of Makuria and probably Alodia | |
Reign | c. 1155-1191 |
Predecessor | David |
Successor | Basil |
Born | First half of the 12th century |
Died | After 1191 |
Mother | Sister of king David |
Relations between medieval Nubia and Abyssinia
edit- Alwan Art
- Hatke Aksum
- https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1045&context=djns
- Zurawski "Nubia and Ethiopia in the Christian period-some affinities" in "Aspects of Ethiopian Art from Ancient Axum to the Twentieth Century."
- Phillipson: Foundations of an African Civilisation
- https://journals.openedition.org/cy/33
- Dahlak 10th century tribute of 500 Nubian (and Abyssinian) female slaves to Ziyadids of Yemen (EA p. 65)
- Pankhurst Nubi raiders p. 154-155
- werner pp. 103-104 letter
- Kaplan Falasha Lubia
- The Letter of an Ethiopian King t o King G eorge II of Nubia
- The Image of the Black in Western Art: Amda Seyon protector of Nubia p. 115
Literature
editRed Sea
edit- Miran, Jonathan (2007). "Power Without Pashas: The Anatomy of Na'ib Au-tonomy in Ottoman Eritrea (17th-19th C.)". Eritrean Studies Review. 5: 33–88.
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(help) - Serels, Steven (2018). The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640-1945.
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Upcoming
edit- Włodzimierz Godlewski: "Relation between the State and the Church in Kingdom of Makuria (8th-9th cent.)"
- Anna Pieri, Mohamed Saad, Katarzyna Solarska: "Unexpected Reuse discovered in the Temple of Dangeil"
- Amel Hassan Gismallah: "Churches in the Third Cataract Region and Southern Dongola region"
- Gertrud J.M. van Loon : "Frontier Wanderings. Church Decoration in the Aswan Region and in Lower Nubia (6th-15th century). Preliminary Results"
https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1052696 tabaqat nationalism
Holt Cambridge History of Africa p. 42 Ajib Islamizer
Hirsch Karten 1990 S. 83-9
Churches Built in the Caves of Lasta (WÃllo Province, Ethiopia): A Chronology
https://www.academia.edu/27498407/Nubian_cathedrals_with_granite_columns_A_view_from_Sai_Island
Holt Funj & Darfur
edithttp://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/assets/hip/gb/uploads/M02_HOLT4458_06_SE_C02.pdf