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LORDS OF THE RED SEA - ANTHONY DAVRAY KARTONIER...

Habab polity was  within living memory  one of a lord (Shumagalle) and serf (Tigre)
relationship. In the 1870s 1880s  the Habab were subjected to pressures from the strong
characters ruling in the surrounding lands: Ras Alula in the Hamasien  the Mahdist Emir Osman
Digna  Colonel Kitchener  Governor of the Anglo-Egyptian enclave of Suakin  and in Massaua the
Egyptians and later the Italians. In 1887  the Kantibai of the Habab signed a treaty of
Protection with the Italians. In the period from 1887 to 1895  the Habab  in a fraught process
had to come to terms with the European concept of sovereignty.Anthony D'Avray's work is
primarily based on documents left by Italian administrators based at Nakfa in Eritrea in the
late 19th century. They reported matters of current importance  and also the extensive oral
traditions of the Habab and other peoples of the Red Sea coasts. Other primary sources  notably
from the Public Record Office in London supplement the Nakfa documents.

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