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Tigray Region (Ethiopia)


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  • Variants

    • Tigray kelel (Ethiopia)
    • YaʼTegrāy beḥérāwi kelel (Ethiopia)
    • Tigray Regional National State (Ethiopia)
    • Tigray Federal State (Ethiopia)
    • Tigray Regional State (Ethiopia)
    • Tegrāy kelel (Ethiopia)
    • Tegray National Regional State (Ethiopia)
    • Beḥérāwi kelelāwi mangeśti Tegrāy (Ethiopia)
    • Tigray kilil (Ethiopia)
    • Tigrai (Ethiopia)
    • Tigray (Ethiopia)
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    • Earlier Established Forms

    • Sources

      • found: The 1994 population and housing census ... 1996-1998:v. 11, t.p. (Transitional Government of Ethiopia; Tigray Region)
      • found: Teseser, 1997:p. 18 (YaʼTegrāy beḥérāwi kelel) p. 26 (Ethiopia; Tigray Regional National State)
      • found: Phone call to Ethiopian Embassy, Nairobi, 05/08/98:(Tigray Region is also known as Tigray Federal State)
      • found: Proceedings of the First Regional Conference of the Tigray Regional State economic development, March 2013.
      • found: Erlikh, Ḥ. Ethiopia and Eritrea during the scramble for Africa, c1982 (subj.)page 1 (Tigre was practically independent in during the 19th century)
      • found: 2020 Ethiopian Govt Portal (ethiopia.gov.et/regional-states1), viewed May 6, 2020(Tigray Regional State; YaTegrāy kelel)
      • found: Proclamation No. 1/1995: Proclamation of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 1995 (Federal Negarit gazeta, 1:1 (21 August 1995):page 17 (1) YaTegray kelel. = 1) The State of Tigray)
      • found: Ethiopian Constitution: translation of the Ethiopian Draft Constitution [of 1994), viewed October 27, 2022 on africa.upenn website:Article 47 (States in the Federation: 1. Tigrai State)
      • found: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, 2003-20104:888 (Tegray (Tegrāy; Amh. Tegré) is a historical region and a regional state of Ethiopia. The official name of the state is Beḥérāwi kelelāwi mangeśti Tegrāy (Beḥérawi Kellelawi Mängeśti Tegrāy; Tegray National Regional State). Formerly known as Region 1. Tigray went through numerous administrative changes in the course of its history, adding or subtracting various districts.) volume 1, pages 101-102 (The 1994 constitution created 9 kelel (kellel), translated as state or province.) [Note: the schwa and “e” used in the encyclopedia's romanization of 6th and 5th order Ethiopic vowels are recorded here as "e" and "é".])
      • found: GEOnet Names Server, viewed September 12, 2022:(Tigray (approved), Tigray Kilil (approved), The State of Tigray (variant), Tigray Regional State (variant); ADM1)
      • found: Africa south of the Sahara, 2022(Regional States: 1. Tigray)
      • found: Foreign names decisions approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Feb. 28, 2001(former name: none; new name: Tigray [short form] Kilil--ADM1, 14°10ʹN 38°50ʹE (ET53))
      • notfound: Africa south of the Sahara, 1997, c1996: p. 397 (Region 1, Tigre)
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    • Change Notes

      • 1998-12-28: new
      • 2022-11-30: revised
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