The Marya are a tribe in western
Eritrea
Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...
. They are mostly shepherds and farmers they inhabit the middle valley of the
Anseba River in the
Keren District. There split into two clans: the Marya qeyih and the marya tselam. They are related to the
Mensa,
Hazo and
Tora peoples,
and form a subgroup of the
Tigre people
The Tigre people ( and ) are an ethnic group indigenous to Eritrea. They mainly inhabit the lowlands and northern highlands of Eritrea, with a small population in Sudan.
History
The Tigre are a nomadic agro-pastoralist community living in the ...
.
References
Ethnic groups in Eritrea
Anseba region
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