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Tegré Ṭaqlāy Gezāt (Ethiopia)

LC control no.no2022132299
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingTegré Ṭaqlāy Gezāt (Ethiopia)
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Variant(s)Tigrie Teklay Gezat (Ethiopia)
Tigre Teklay Gizat (Ethiopia)
Province of Tigre (Ethiopia)
Governorate General of Tigre (Ethiopia)
Yategré ṭaqlāy gezāt (Ethiopia)
Tigre Teqlay Ghizat (Ethiopia)
Tegrē (Ethiopia)
Tigrē (Ethiopia)
Tigrē, Ethiopia
See alsoTigray Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia)
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Special noteSUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Tigray Region (Ethiopia).
Found inMarét, gizénā lawṭ baTegré ṭaqlāy gezāt = Land, time, and change in the province of Tigre, between 1971 and 1973 [lccn: 2001314915]
Yategré ṭaqlāy gezāt polis maṣehét, 1971 [74983226]
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Tigrē, Ethiopia)
Masfen Waldamāryām. Atlas of Ethiopia, 1970: page 3 (Tigre; one of 14 Governorate Generals (Teqlay Ghizats))
Erlikh, Ḥ. Ethiopia and Eritrea during the scramble for Africa, 1996: page 1 (Tigre, practically independent in 19th century; struggle between Shoa under Menelik II and Yohannes IV (1872-1889) of Tigre.)
National Atlas of Ethiopia, 1988: page 2 (in 1946, Ethiopia had 12 provinces (awrajas); in 1946, awrajas became Teklay Gizat; in 1974, provinces became an Administrative Region (Kifle Hager))
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, 2003: volume 1, pages 101-103 (Constitution of 1931 created 14 units (kefl; plural, kefloč). In reality, Ethiopia was divided into 32 gezāt (territories or possesions), including Tegre. During the Italian occupation (1936-41), Ethiopia was divided into 5 governorates (governi), with Tegre as part of of Eritrea. Decree no. 1 of 1942 created 12 provinces called awraǧǧa. In 1946, ʼawrāǧā became ṭaqlāy gezāt (governorate-general or province). After the 1974 Revolution, kefla hāgar replaced ṭaqlāy gezāt and the name of Tegré changed to Tegrāy. [Note: the schwa and "e" used in the encyclopedia's romanization of 6th and 5th order Ethiopic vowels are recorded here as "e" and "é".])