User:LeGabrie

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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 I expanded to GA and FA status

 * Alodia Cscr-featured.svg
 * ''Mighty medieval Nubian kingdom

Entries I expanded to GA status

 * Dahlak sultanate Symbol_support_vote.svg
 * ''Early Islamic monarchy in Eritrea


 * Daju kingdom Symbol_support_vote.svg


 * ''Badly known kingdom of medieval Darfur


 * Kingdom of al-Abwab Symbol_support_vote.svg


 * Successor state of Alodia


 * Kingdom of Fazughli Symbol_support_vote.svg


 * ''An obscure successor state of Alodia


 * Throne Hall of Dongola Symbol_support_vote.svg
 * ''The throne hall of the Makurian kings as well as the oldest standing Sudanese mosque

Entries I created and/or significantly expanded

 * Ababda people: Ababda or Beja Language
 * 19th century evidence for the pre-Arabic language of the Sudanese "Arab" Ababda tribe


 * Armour in the 18th century
 * About 18th century European armour


 * Ennarea


 * ''A kingdom in what is now Ethiopia that used to be of major importance before the Oromo invasions.


 * Funj Sultanate: Ottoman threat and revolt of Ajib
 * The first 100 years of the Funj sultanate


 * Georgios II of Makuria
 * ''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


 * Nobatia
 * ''Late Antique/early Medieval kingdom in Lower Nubia


 * Odrysian Kingdom
 * ''Big Thracian kingdom


 * Sudan: Medieval Nubian kingdoms (c. 350–1500), Islamic kingdoms of Sennar and Darfur (c. 1500–1821)
 * Summary of the Christian and Islamic history of Sudan


 * Tora (Darfur)
 * ''Semi-legendary culture of Darfur


 * Visigothic Kingdom: Culture and classical heritage
 * ''On the cultural niveau of the Visigoths


 * Zagwe dynasty
 * ''Everything below the "History" section

Awards
Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:34, 25 April 2019 (UTC):

Sanjak & Eyalet of Ibrim
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
Shendi province: "Die ausschließliche Landessprache ist die arabische" (1824)

Relations between medieval Nubia and Abyssinia

 * 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

Upcoming

 * 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
http://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/assets/hip/gb/uploads/M02_HOLT4458_06_SE_C02.pdf