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Title:Military Elites in Medieval Ethiopia
Author:Aregay, Merid W.ISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:Journal of Ethiopian Studies
Volume:30
Issue:1
Period:June
Pages:31-73
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:political history
feudalism
militarism
military personnel
history
traditional polities
Military, Defense and Arms
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41966063
Abstract:War leaders and their armies of professional warriors were pivotal institutions in the early stages of feudalism everywhere. In Ethiopia, the military institutions of early feudalism persisted, with only slight modifications, down the centuries. The almost continuous demographic movement of lowland pastoralists into the highlands and the role of long-distance trade in the development and maintenance of classes and States in the Horn of Africa were particularly important for the emergence in Ethiopia in early Aksumite times of highly militarized kings and dynasties, and for their subsequent survival. The author describes the organization of chiefs and military regiments and their role in Ethiopian political history until the mid-seventeenth century. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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