Doba (historical region)

1828 map by Sidney Hall illustrating Doba region bordered by Tigray in the north and Assubo Galla (Oromo) in the south

Doba (Amharic: ዶባ, Afar: Dobaq) also known as the Country of Dobas was a historical Muslim region in central modern Ethiopia.[1] Historian Fesseha Berhe associates Doba with the Saho people.[2] Historian John Trimingham argues that the people of Doba were of Afar stock.[3]

The people of Doba are considered extinct today.[4] According to George Huntingford, Doba appeared to have come from the name of a people who inhabited the area, the Dobe'a, rather than a region.[5]

  1. ^ Menasbo, Negga. HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST ETHIOPIA WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RAYA-AZӒBO, 1543-1974 (PDF). Addis Ababa University. p. 68.
  2. ^ Berhe, Fesseha. Regional History and Ethnohistory Gerhard Rohlfs and other Germanophone Researchers and a Forgotten Ethnic Group, the Dobʿa (PDF). Mekelle University. p. 128.
  3. ^ Trimingham, J. Spencer (2013-09-13). Islam in Ethiopia. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-136-97022-1.
  4. ^ Levine, Donald (10 December 2014). Greater Ethiopia The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society. University of Chicago Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780226229676.
  5. ^ Huntingford, G. W. B. (2017-05-15). Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646: Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with Bahrey's History of the Galla. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-05271-5.