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Abba (given Name)
Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages. It is used as a given name, but was also used as a title or honorific for religious scholars or leaders. (The word abbot has the same root.) Persons with the given name Abba, or who are known by that title Jewish/Babylonian/Palestinian religious scholars * Abba of Acre (3rd century), Jewish religious scholar *Abba Arika (175-247), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar * Abba bar Abba (2nd-3rd century), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar * Abba bar Zabdai (3rd century), Jewish/Palestinian religious scholar *''Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama'' (270-350), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar known in the Talmud as Rava * Abba Mordechai Berman (1919-2005), Polish Jewish rabbi and religious scholar *Abba Hilkiah (1st century), Jewish Hasidic sage * Abba Jose ben Hanan (1st century), Jewish sage and tanna * Abba Mari (13th-14th century), French/Jewish rabbi * Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli (c. 1194-1256), a French/Jewish scholar and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semitic Languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, who derived the name from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis. Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date in West Asia, with East Semitic Akkadian and Eblaite texts (written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform) appearing from the 30th century BCE and the 25th century BCE in Mesopotamia and the north eastern Levant respectively. The only earlier attested languages are Sumerian and Elamite (2800 BCE to 550 BCE), both language isolates, and Egyptian (a sister branch of the Afroasiatic family, related to the Semitic la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Jimma
The Kingdom of Jimma ( om, Mootummaa Jimmaa) was an Oromo kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century. It shared its western border with Limmu-Ennarea, its eastern border with the Sidamo Kingdom of Janjero, and was separated from the Kingdom of Kaffa to the south by the Gojeb River. Jimma was considered the most powerful militarily of the Gibe kingdoms. History Establishment According to legend, a number of Oromo groups (variously given from five to 10) were led to Jimma by a great sorceress and Queen named Makhore, who carried a ''boku'' (usually connected with the '' abba boku'', or headman of the Oromo ''Gadaa'' system) which when placed on the ground would cause the earth to tremble and men to fear. It is said that with this ''boku'', she drove the Kaffa people living in the area across the Gojeb River. While this suggests that the Oromo invaders drove the original inhabitants from the area, Herbert S. Lewis notes that Oromo society was inclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerasimus Of The Jordan
Gerasimus of the Jordan ( el, Γεράσιμος Ἰορδανίτης, Abba Gerasimus, Holy Righteous Father Gerasimus of Jordan—also spelled Gerasimos or Gerasim) was a Christian saint, monk and abbot of the 5th century AD. Biography Gerasimus was born into a wealthy family in the province of Lycia,''Saint Gerasimus, from the Russian Lives of the Saints based on the Menologion of St. Dimitry of Rostov, Orthodox Church in America.'' the southern part of Asia Minor, but he left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He departed for the region Thebaid in the Egyptian desert, later again returning to his native Lycia. About the middle of 5th century Saint Gerasimus went to Palestine and settled in the wilderness near the Jordan River. There he established a monastery and became known for his righteous life of asceticism and prayer. He is reputed to have attended to the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451. The story of Gerasimus and the lion, when the sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weizmann Institute Of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only postgraduate degrees in the natural and exact sciences. It is a multidisciplinary research center, with around 3,800 scientists, postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, and scientific, technical, and administrative staff working at the institute. As of 2019, six Nobel laureates and three Turing Award winners have been associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science. History Founded in 1934 by Chaim Weizmann and his first team, among them Benjamin M. Bloch, as the Daniel Sieff Research Institute. Weizmann had offered the post of director to Nobel Prize laureate Fritz Haber, but took over the directorship himself after Haber's death en route to Palestine. Before he became President of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Eban
Abba Solomon Meir Eban (; he, אבא אבן ; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Early life Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 2 February 1915 to Lithuanian Jewish parents; his mother, Alida Sacks, was an aunt of Oliver Sacks, while his father, Avram Solomon, died while Eban was still an infant. Eban's mother moved to the United Kingdom at an early age. As a child, he recalled being sent to his grandfather's house every weekend to study the Hebrew language, Talmud, and Biblical literature. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Ahimeir
Abba Ahimeir ( he, אב"א אחימאיר, russian: Аба Шойл Гайсинович; 2 November 1897 – 6 June 1962) was a Russian-born Jewish journalist, historian, and political activist. One of the ideologues of Revisionist Zionism, he was the founder of the Revisionist Maximalist faction of the Zionist Revisionist Movement (ZRM) and of the clandestine Brit HaBirionim. Biography Abba Shaul Gaisinovich (later Abba Ahimeir) was born in Dolgoe, a village near Babruysk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus). From 1912 to 1914, he attended the Herzliya Gymnasium high school in Tel Aviv. While with his family in Babruysk for summer vacation in 1914, World War I broke out and he was forced to complete his studies in Russia. In 1917, he participated in the Russian Zionist Conference in Petrograd and underwent agricultural training as part of Joseph Trumpeldor’s HeHalutz movement in Batum, Caucasia to prepare him for a life as a pioneer in the Land of Israel. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Thulle
Abba Thulle was the ibedul, of Koror Koror is the state comprising the main commercial centre of the Republic of Palau. It consists of several islands, the most prominent being Koror Island (also ''Oreor Island''). It is Palau’s most populous state. History In the oral tradition ... whom the sailor Henry Wilson and his crew met on their voyage to Palau in 1783. His second son Prince Lee Boo became one of the first people from the Pacific Islands to visit Great Britain, but died six months after he departed. He learned of his son's death when Captain John McCluer later visited the islands. Andrew Cheyne wrote about his encounter with Abba Thulle in the book ''A description of islands in the western Pacific ocean, north and south of the equator''. William Lisle Bowles wrote a poem about him entitled ''Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo''. A horse was named after him that later won the Doncaster Cup in 1790. Notes References History of Palau People f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba (count)
Of the first historically verifiable rulers of Frisia, whether they are called dukes or kings, the last royal dynasty below is established by the chronicles of Merovingian kings of the Franks, with whom they were contemporaries. In these contemporary chronicles, they were styled ''dux'', a Latin term for leader which is the origin of the title ''duke'' and its cognates in other languages (''duc'', ''duce'', ''doge'', ''duque'', etc.). They were independent until the death of Radbod at the earliest. After coming under Frankish rule, Frisia was governed by counts the power of these counts was very limited due to the decentralized nature of the region specifically due to the terrain. Following the Treaty of Verdun and Treaty of Meersen the Frisians east of the Vlie came under the rule of the Saxon kings of East Francia, The Saxon counts that formally owned parts of Frisia generally held little power in the region and relied on local nobles to exploit the territory in exchange for p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oromo People
The Oromo (pron. Oromo: ''Oromoo'') are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya, who speak the Oromo language (also called ''Afaan Oromoo'' or ''Oromiffa''), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and represent a large portion of Ethiopia's population. The Oromo people traditionally used the '' gadaa'' system as the primary form of governance.Harold G. MarcuA History of Ethiopia University of California Press (1994) pp. 55 Google Books A leader is elected by the ''gadaa'' system and their term lasts eight years, with an election taking place at the end of those eight years. Although most modern Oromos are Muslims and Christians, about 3% practice Waaqeffanna, the native ancient monotheistic religion of Oromos. Origins and nomenclature The Oromo people are one of the oldest cushitic peoples inhabiting the Horn of Africa, as there is still no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Magal
Abba Magal () was a leader of the Diggo Oromo, and the father of Abba Jifar I. Previously, the Diggo, based in the area of Mana, had conquered the nearby town of Hirmata that was home to the Lalo people. This victory gave Abba Magal enough wealth to compete with the dominant Oromo clan in Jimma, the Badi of Saqqa. With the help of his four sons, he began a series of wars that led to the formation of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma The Kingdom of Jimma ( om, Mootummaa Jimmaa) was an Oromo kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century. It shared its western border with Limmu-Ennarea, its eastern border with the Sidamo Kingdom of Janjero, and was ....Herbert S. Lewis, ''A Galla Monarchy: Jimma Abba Jifar, Ethiopia'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 1965), p. 39. Notes Kings of Gibe {{Ethiopia-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Jofir
''Moti'' Abba Jobir Abba Dula is the last King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (reigned 1932), and a member of the Oromo people. He was the grandson of Abba Jifar II. He aligned himself with the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Reign When King Abba Jifar II grew senile in his later years, Abba Jobir ascended the throne of the Kingdom of Jimma. His reign was, however, short lived because, in 1932, his letters of correspondence with the Italians was discovered. The Italians were recruiting people to rebel within Ethiopia in hopes of fomenting division before the impending invasion. After the discovery of his letters, he was summoned to Addis Ababa, charged with Treason and imprisoned. In 1937, the Italians entered the city of Addis Ababa and briefly occupied it. During this time, they Freed their ally and installed him as Sultan of the Italian Province of Galla-Sidamo. He collaborated extensively with them and hunted resistance fighters with the aid of the Italians. . During the It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Jifar II
''Moti'' Abba Jifar II ( om, Mootii Abbaa Jifaar; 1861 – 1932) was King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (r. 1878–1932). Reign Abba Jifar II was king of Jimma, and the son of Abba Gomol and Queen Gumiti. He had several wives: Queen Limmiti, who was the daughter of the King of Limmu-Ennarea; Queen Minjo, the daughter of the King of Kaffa; and Queen Sapertiti, also from Limmu-Ennarea. During his reign there were Sufi saints who supported his rule. One of them is Sadati Of Bure, who later migrated to Illubabor. In the 1880s, Abba Jifar II conquered a portion of the Kingdom of Janjero, which lay east of Jimma, along the Omo River, and incorporated it into his kingdom. Due to the advice of his mother Queen Gumiti, to avoid the detriments of war, he agreed to submit to Menelik II, ''negus'' of Shewa in 1884. In 1886, Abba Jifar II paid peace offerings consisting of "slaves (including eunuchs), ivory, bamboo internodes filled with civet, jars of honey, locally made cloth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
