እዚህ እንደ ፖፕ ኮርን የሚንጣጡ መሃይም ቆማጣ ትምክህተኞች ዘራቸው ያላጭበረበረውና ያልዘረቀው ታሪክ ንብረትም ሆነ ዝና አይገኝም:: ምሳሌ: ላሊብላ ታሪኩ ሲነሳ እንደ አማራ ንብረት ነው የሚቀርበው ስልጣኔው ግን የአገው ነው:: የአገው ነገስታት ግን ታሪካቸው አይነሳም!! Deception!!
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The misappropriation of the Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches to the Amhara people, while constructed under an Agew king, stems from the political replacement of the Agew Zagwe dynasty by the Amhara-dominated Solomonic dynasty, coupled with geographic location and religious assimilation.
Here is a breakdown of why this happens:
* Historical Rewriting: When the Solomonic dynasty took power from the Agew Zagwe rulers in 1270 AD, succeeding historians sought to delegitimize the Zagwe era. Because early Ethiopian historical chronicles were often penned by Solomonic—and largely Amhara—scribes, the achievements of the Agew kings were minimized or absorbed into the broader Amhara narrative of imperial history.
* Geographic Reality: The churches are located in the Lasta region of northern Ethiopia, which falls within the modern-day Amhara Regional State. Because the churches are physically situated in Amhara territory and used by Amhara practitioners of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, popular association naturally links the sites to the local demographic.
* Religious and Linguistic Assimilation: The Agew people who built the churches in the 12th and 13th centuries largely assimilated into the dominant Amhara culture and language over the following centuries. Their distinct ethnic identity faded into the broader Amhara ethnolinguistic group, causing historical monuments in their former territories to be attributed to the Amhara.
* Cultural [deleted]: Both groups share the same deeply rooted religious traditions (the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church). Because religious identity frequently eclipses regional or ethnic labels in historical contexts, the churches are viewed simply as "Ethiopian Christian," which outsiders and modern observers often equate to the dominant Amhara culture.
King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, who commissioned these monolithic structures to act as a "New Jerusalem", was indeed a monarch of the Agew-led Zagwe dynasty. While historians and archeologists accurately attribute the creation of the churches to the Zagwe, the sociopolitical shifts in Ethiopia's history have deeply colored the popular cultural attribution.