You wrong hawdian, the kebessa never been part of axumite empire, they are migrants from dembia/gonder some 500 years ago. they were not there during the zeins of the axum empire. Axum belongs to agazians tigrays. it was based in ona adi/axum hanza/adwa and gulo makda/agame area before it grew into an empire. they wese yeha empire centerd in adwa/agame which was a sabean civilization. that use a sabean alphabet before the agazian/geez invented the geez language. The agazi are eastern tigray people specifically agame. their pure tigrayans to this day.AwRastaale wrote:Our friend Revolutionary appears to be Eritrean while Anseba is clearly a Tigregu cleverly imposing as an Eritrean. Authentic Eritreans dislike the use of Anseba because that was a divide and conquer rule used by both Italy and the southern Mareb arch enemies (Tigrais).
The authentic name is Hamasien...anseba being Hamasien divided into two.
Having said that I agree with Revolutionary.
Eritrea was never really part of Ethiopia. It was briefly part of Axum Empire and in my views played central role (then Kebessa dominated the hinter-land Tigrais). But that state lived short after the central Agews crashed the party and in their 400 or so years rule----they hardly extended their authority over Eritrea. In fact, they abandoned the north and even moved their capital from Axum to Wag (Lalibela in present day Wollo).
When the Amhara emerged and established their own rule starting with Yekuno, they never took Amharic beyond parts of Meqelle in southern-central Tigray.
The Amhara changed hands with the Agews for the next 900 years and in all those years Amharic only expanded south. That 900 year old rule will be come to known as Abyssinia.
Apart from the time Ras Kassa of Tigray (later Emperor Yohannes IV) collaborated with the British in the late 1880s and won their arms and later sent Ras Alula Engida to Hamasien to vend off Egyptians----there was no real Abyssinian or Ethiopian presence in Eritrea.
The Church on the other hand freely operated in all Habesha lands but the Church authority did not lay with Ethiopia nor Eritrea but in Egypt's Alexandria. That is where Tewahedo was ruled from and is still to this day.
This does not mean Ethiopia did not use the Church to its advantage over the Eritreans. It often smuggled propaganda ideas within religion classes or gatherings.
Yohannes trying to win more arms from Britain, lap danced for them and told them he could make them safe passage into Sudan (from Yemen and Somaliland). But once the Mahdis discovered his plans, they declared war on him. He already harassed the Muslims and forced them to convert.
Eventually Beja man killed him and took his head with him to Sudan never to be seen again....and that takes us to Menelik II. Eritrea is still Ethiopia-free land but under Italian rule.
When Italy was defeated by the Allies, Eritrea was not placed under UN-Trusteeship like Somalia (south) and this was the American idea. They knew if they had given the UN a role that member states would vote for Eritrean independence and most likely Eritreans would not be US allies because Washington needs Ethiopia.
So they revised ingenious idea that Britain takes over and 'prepares Eritrean institutions'...Britain was of course YES boss to USA...it didn't resist the Somali regions.
It was only Haile Selassie who used the Americans to gain some control. He promised the Americans an army base in Eritrea if they backed Ethiopia's claim to Eritrea and the Somali Region (Ogaden and Haud). The Americans feared if they didn't take a base in Eritrea, right next to the heart of the Red Sea and the not so old Suez Canal-------Russia would make its way to Africa. That was the birth of the cold war in Africa.
The Haud
You also wrong Ages overthrowing axum. Backward agews were always subjects of axum. their only use was their land since it was a trade route from sosa/sudan to axum. That was it.
Axum is tigray tigray is axum. There is axumite footprints all over tigray, from the monastrnes in enderta to shire. To the mosque in kilte awlaelo/wukro. to the ruins in graves in axum/agame in adwa.
Axum's decline was due internal uprising from within and also the expansion of islam that controlled the redsea trade. finally the tegaru jews in western tigray overthrew axum and took over and ruled it for 40 years for they were treated badly by the central government. they destrory the chritian relics there. the are still burnt rock hewn churchs in gherealta(tembien/enerta) tigray. i saw them myself.
There is no agew in axum, agew are good people but they are backward. the jews you keep referencing for the destroying axum, are tegarus jews from shire. You dont even know the first jews are tegarus. and judaism were the religion in axum for a breif moment before christianity took over.
Here are tegarus jews of isreali citizens for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZgJvvWDdRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6bSDplAnHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH327jNHJUc