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Doba (historical Region)
Doba (Amharic: ዶባ, Afar language, Afar: Dobaq) also known as the Country of Dobas was a historical Muslim region in central modern Ethiopia. Historian Fesseha Berhe associates Doba with the Saho people. Historian J. Spencer Trimingham, John Trimingham argues that the people of Doba were of Afar stock. The people of Doba are considered extinct today. According to George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, George Huntingford, Doba appeared to have come from the name of a people who inhabited the area, the Dobe'a, rather than a region. History Doba was mostly populated by pastoralists known as the Dobe'a. The people of Doba are linked to the Argobba people, Argobba aristocracy of Walasma dynasty, Walasma. Argobba people consider the inhabitants of Doba their ancestors. Doba territory was within the 13th century Ifat Sultanate, Ifat state. In the 14th century Doba neighbored Tigray Province , Tigray, Angot, and Amhara Province, Amhara regions of modern Ethiopia. According to Ayele Tar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territory Of Doba
A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international relations, international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an administrative division is usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. As a subdivision a territory is in most country, countries an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a politics, political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as "provinces" or "regions" or "states". In its narrower sense, it is "a geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government." Etymology The origins of the word "territory" begin with the Proto-Indo-European root ''ters'' ('to dry'). From this emerged the Latin word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
