Agaw people

The Agaw (also Agau or Agaou called ) are a group of ethnic groups who live in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea in the state of Amhara. Their total number is about 700,000 people. They speak different varieties of zentralkuschitischen ( Agau ) language, their religion is above all Christianity.

The Agaw were first mentioned in an inscription of King Kaleb of Axum and in the writings of Cosmas Indicopleustes; some experts represented a first developed by Carlo Conti Rossini theory that this ethnic group have been the original inhabitants of the Ethiopian highlands and were either expelled or have mixed with the Tigray and Amhara.

Subgroups

  • Northern Agaw or Bilen, capital Keren
  • Western Agaw or Kemant, capital Aykel
  • Eastern Agaw or Xamir, capital Sokota
  • Southern Agaw Awi or ( people ), capital Injibara
Amhara Region Tigray-Tigrinya people Amhara people Bilen people Keren, Eritrea Qemant people Tomo Šokota Zagwe dynasty
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