In Search of Gendabelo, the Ethiopian “Market of the World”of the 15th and 16th Centuries

This paper edits and translates three unpublished Ethiopian texts in Ajami, Arabic, and Amharic from the 19th and 20th centuries that mention nostalgically the now vanished great medieval market of Gendabelo. The market appears in the 15th and 16th century documentation, both endogenous and exogenou...

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Main Authors: Amélie Chekroun, Ahmed Hassen Omer, Bertrand Hirsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2023-07-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/19577
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