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Agame (Tigrinya: ዓጋመ, lit. 'fruitful') was a former province in northern Ethiopia. Located at the northeastern corner of the Ethiopian Empire, it bordered on the northern side near Akele Guzai in Eritrea, Tembien, Kalatta Awlalo and Enderta in the south, and both the Eritrean and Ethiopian Afar lowlands in the east. This relative location placed Agame at the strategic cross-roads between the Red Sea coast and the interior of southern Eritrea, on the one hand, and the northern Tigrayan plateau on the other. In pre-1991, Agame had a total area of about 4,889 square kilometres (1,888 sq mi) with an estimated population of 344,800.[1]

980 BC – 940 AD
Agame is one of the oldest regions of Ethiopia, being part of the Kingdom of D'mt in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea that would develop into the Kingdom of Aksum. It was a main center of Aksumite culture (second only to Western Tigray, where the capital was located), with a distinct sub-culture that separated the two regions from that of Western Tigray (Shire, Axum, Yeha), Central Eritrea (Seraye, Hamasien, Akele Guzai and Adulis), and frontier areas in northern Eritrea.[2][3] Agame is one of the very few place-names identified in the Adulis inscription as early as the 3rd century.[4][5] It is mentioned there as an apparently viable local political entity and it seems that it continued as such from then onwards. The area also appears to have been part of the eastern cultural province of ancient Aksum: to this period dates back the foundation of the monastery of Debre Damo, which played a major role in Ethiopia's ecclesiastic history throughout the Middle Ages up to the modern times.[1]

11th century – 18th century
The chiefs of Agame would assume the title of Shum Agame (Ge'ez: ሹም ዓጋመ) in medieval times and throughout history. Even though in the 16th century the Shum Agame submitted to Ahmad Ibrahim al-Gazi's army, the physical inaccessibility of lowland Agame suited the purpose of providing safe hideouts to various political, religious and social dissidents. It remained the centre of prominent monasteries such as Gunda Gunde Maryam, which was established by the Stephanites (Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende) during the 15th century. Agame was mentioned in the 16th century charter written during the reign of Emperor Lebna Dengel.[6] During medieval times, Agame was part of a larger province of Bur in Ethiopia, which also included some northeastern Afar lowlands, and the Buri Peninsula; Agame and Akkele Guzay were part of "Upper" (La'ilay) Bur, while the lowlands were further distinguished as "Lower" (Tahtay).[7]

Agame appears on indigenous maps of the northern Horn of Africa in the 15th Century.[8]

19th century

A portrait of Dejazmatch Sabagadis Woldu worshipping St. Mary, on the wall iconography at Gunda Gunde Church
Agame had a major role to play in the political ascendancy of Tigray in Christian Ethiopia during the greater part of the first quarter of the 19th century. One of the prominent warlords of northern Ethiopia, Dejazmatch Sabagadis Woldu, who ruled Tigray in the period 1822-31, had his power base in Agame. His demise at the Battle of Debre Abbay marked a decline in the political importance of Agame in the Tigrayan political arena.[1]

20th century
In the period 1896-1936, Agame was led by the descendants of Sabagadis. Dejazmatch Kassa Sebhat was the chief of the area during the Italian war 1935-36. He mobilized the people of Agame and engaged the Italians at the battle of Fagena, in the Afar escarpment east of Addigrat. But he was defeated and ultimately surrendered. During 1941-74 Agame existed as an awraja (in the province of Tigray), having five districts (woreda) under it: Gulo Makeda, Ganta Afshum, Subja Sase, Dallol and Kalatte Balaza. Descendants of the Sabagadis family still governed Agame until the revolution.[1]

Geography
Topographically, the Agame area exhibits diverse physical features: mountain massifs, plains, plateaux, deep gorges and river valleys. Archaeological evidence indicates that Agame was one of the earliest places in Ethiopia to adopt ploughshare agriculture, but centuries of over-cultivation and maximum utilization of resource turned the area into agriculturally marginal land.[1]

Demographics

Abuna Aregawi House at Debre Damo Monastery
The principal inhabitants of Agame are Afar & Saho. The Afar-speaking population predominated in the high-lands. The north-eastern and south-eastern sector of the escarpment is principally inhabited by the Saho-speaking Irob and Afar-speakers respectively. Adigrat prevailed as the capital of Agame throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Since the 19th century, Agame has been an enduring base for Lazarist Catholic evangelization in northern Ethiopia. The legacies of this process are the Catholic Cathedral and the Seminary of Adigrat and the considerable Catholic congregation of Irobland in the lowlands.

Government
The local noble family had ruled over Agame from the "Era of the Princes" until the Derg deposed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. This family retained sufficient power and respect following the Italian conquest in 1936, that the Italian Viceroy Pietro Badoglio proposed in a telegram to Benito Mussolini that some of the old Ethiopian ruling class be co-opted into Italian East Africa: "In the region between Shoa and Eritrea, there were local noble families which it was not convenient to slight because they had exercised command for generations and have authority and prestige which can be valuable for us."

Ethiopian records traces the origins of this family to the marriage of King Margedir of Rome and Eleni, sister of King Solomon.

[Cigar]

You funfun, filthy agames we all know the noun version meaning of agame. Agame is a quenti eating dirty people if tigray.
But in Eritrean Tigrigna dictionary we have a noun version and an adjective version of the word agame.
So the meaning of its adjective form, agames means, dirty, tegwar, resah, lemanni, beggar, smelly, Eritrean slave, prostitue, thief,quli, listro (Eritreans shoe shiner) one wheeler cart pusher, beles carrying ugly looking, barefooted, sheep slaughter, animal hides and empty bottles seller, beles peeler, coward and every nasty other adjectives.
In short we call any body even while people or pure Eritreans AGAMES if they exhibit your tegarus inferiority and envious traits.
So, no matter how centuries ago they were living (if it was to be true) doesn’t change the meaning of a dirty from inside out agame.
And stop talking about centuries ago fake histories. Even if they were true, they didn’t protect you in a current situation you are in. In deep sh’it, till your tegwar necks.
After all Mussolini and Hitler were also super powers, the black Americans were legally slaves of the white Americans. We the Eritreans were being fu’cked up by Mussolini.
Only a dirty and stupid agame will say that they will build today which they can use for last year. Dumb a’sses. Talk about the 900 thousand agames who are dying like rats as we speak, talk about the over 3 million nasty agames who are starving to death, while you are making bull sh’it centuries old lie as if such will resurrect your dead rats or put food in your starving agames tables. Or at least kneel down to your master Ethiopians and save your people’s miseries and suffering.
Bragging is what you got you in the situation you are in. Remember you told the ethio that war is your cultural game shows and dared them by attacking and massacring their troops while they were asleep. And now, you all are crying like your she’ramut agames moms and begging any body to save you from the fire you set yourselves.
Keep it up. Resist so that we can enjoy your miseries snd suffering for as long as we can.
It is our pleasure to see your mom and your snotty siblings experience or continue to face the excruciating pain you know they are going through.
A dead agame is a decent agame.
No go fu’ck yourself you dumb a’ss, filthy, funfun agame aliet.

[EthioRedSea]

You funfun, filthy agames we all know the noun version meaning of agame. Agame is a quenti eating dirty people if tigray.
But in Eritrean Tigrigna dictionary we have a noun version and an adjective version of the word agame.
So the meaning of its adjective form, agames means, dirty, tegwar, resah, lemanni, beggar, smelly, Eritrean slave, prostitue, thief,quli, listro (Eritreans shoe shiner) one wheeler cart pusher, beles carrying ugly looking, barefooted, sheep slaughter, animal hides and empty bottles seller, beles peeler, coward and every nasty other adjectives.
In short we call any body even while people or pure Eritreans AGAMES if they exhibit your tegarus inferiority and envious traits.
So, no matter how centuries ago they were living (if it was to be true) doesn’t change the meaning of a dirty from inside out agame.
And stop talking about centuries ago fake histories. Even if they were true, they didn’t protect you in a current situation you are in. In deep sh’it, till your tegwar necks.
After all Mussolini and Hitler were also super powers, the black Americans were legally slaves of the white Americans. We the Eritreans were being fu’cked up by Mussolini.
Only a dirty and stupid agame will say that they will build today which they can use for last year. Dumb a’sses. Talk about the 900 thousand agames who are dying like rats as we speak, talk about the over 3 million nasty agames who are starving to death, while you are making bull sh’it centuries old lie as if such will resurrect your dead rats or put food in your starving agames tables. Or at least kneel down to your master Ethiopians and save your people’s miseries and suffering.
Bragging is what you got you in the situation you are in. Remember you told the ethio that war is your cultural game shows and dared them by attacking and massacring their troops while they were asleep. And now, you all are crying like your she’ramut agames moms and begging any body to save you from the fire you set yourselves.
Keep it up. Resist so that we can enjoy your miseries snd suffering for as long as we can.
It is our pleasure to see your mom and your snotty siblings experience or continue to face the excruciating pain you know they are going through.
A dead agame is a decent agame.
No go fu’ck yourself you dumb a’ss, filthy, funfun agame aliet.

My dog you do not understand history. You need to go to school again and learn about the ancient culture of Agame.