Publisher's Synopsis
Bahri-Negassi Isaac of Dbarwa was known as far as the land of Abyssinia. In 1579 he formed a military alliance with the Turks and died in a battle against Emperor Sertse-Dingil at TigrayEntcho, but the Bahri-Kingdom retained its independence. In 1626, the sea-king John Hakai of Takita (Adi Mengonti) fought against the Turks in the North Sea, but could not release them. Married in 1632-1668, however, he realized that they could not help him, so he divorced their daughter-in-law, married a daughter of Adi Hibtiyes Habab during the reign of Kentib Zeri and Kentib Tesfamichael, and broke his relationship with Emperor Fasil.
When Emperor Fasil expelled the Portuguese Catholic priests, including Abune Alfonso Mendez, from his country, they crossed the border into the land of Abyssinia and entered the land of the sea, where Bahrinegassi Yohannes Hakai sheltered and accompanied them home. Fasil again planted enmity, sent troops to fight Bahri-Negassi Yohannes, who went down to the land of Mensa called Agaaro and settled there for a while. Fasil again planted enmity, sent troops to fight Bahri-Negassi Yohannes, who went down to the land of Mensa called Agaaro and settled there for a while. John Hakay fought to preserve the kingdom of Dbarwa. He was wounded and died in his hometown, Takita, around 1640. Hab-Sulu Abak, born in 1648, was 16 years old when he quarreled with his cousin Emha and emigrated to Ademhara. 1672/3 During the reign of Emperor Yohannes I 1668-1682 he returned to Adi Tse'azega. The Bahri-kings and the independent kingdom of Dbarwa ended, and the struggle of Tse'azega and Hazega laid the foundation.It was then that the Adkeme-Melga Act of 1476 and the Lego Muscle Act of 1496 were established twenty years later. The son of Degiat Gere-Kstos, the grandson of Degiat Hab-Sulu, Abak, ruled and made as far as northern Wollo and ---Welkait. He became the heir to the throne and made the princes of Tigray to found the present city of Adwa. However, his army, Michael -Shul, who grew up in Tse'azegha and appointed him to govern Adwa, betrayed him, captured him in a battle and strangled him to death with a shash, the Merb-Melash chief It seemed to have lost, who ruled the origin of the struggle and conflict between Tse'azega and Hazega increased accordingly, and paved the way for the invasion of the princes of Tigray. Degiat Sbagads, Degiat Uben and Ra's Alula crossed the Merv and conducted invasions and looting for 120 years (1866-1889), killing people and destroying villages. After the fall of Ra's Andehaimanot, Merb-Melesh declined from an independent state to a lower level, appointments were given by the princes of Tigray, not from the kings of the land of Ethiopia, and the Mud Age laid the foundation. This book, "The Story of Tse'azega and Hazega" by Johannes Colmodin in 1912, is therefore an excellent book that tells our past with a charming narrative, edited, chronological and illustrated and presented in a new form for readers and historians.
