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"Encyclopaedia Aethiopica" online
The "Encyclopaedia Aethiopica" is a five volume reference work coordinated by the university of Hamburg and published by Harrassowitz. It focuses on Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Horn of Africa in general and covers topics like history, culture and economics. It contains well over 4.000 entries by over 500 authors, with each entry featuring a bibliography for further reading. As such it is a invaluable resource for anyone interested in the region. Luckily, all volumes are available online:
PdS: Es ist 1597 und du bist eine koreanische Nase
Kontext: Im Jahr 1592 fiel eine japanische Armee unter Daimyo Toyotomo Hideyoshi in Korea ein, mit dem Endziel, China zu erobern. Dies war der Beginn des Imjin Krieges, der größte Krieg des 16. Jahrhunderts. Die riesige und mit modernen Feurwaffen ausgestattete japanische Armee überrannte Korea, wurde aber schließlich von der chinesischen Ming-Armee zurückgedrängt. 1597 setzte erneut eine japanische Armee über, fast genauso groß wie die erste Invasionsarmee. Der Tod Hideyoshis ein Jahr später sowie koreanische Erfolge zu See setzten dem Krieg dann ein Ende.
Der Krieg hatte desaströse Konsequenzen für Korea: Über 100.000 Koreaner starben und bis zu 100.000 weitere wurden versklavt und nach Japan verschleppt, unter ihnen zahlreiche Handwerker und Intellektuelle. Ungewöhnlich brutal war die Kriegstrophäenjagd, welche während der zweiten Invasion ihren Höhepunkt fand. In der traditionellen chinesischen Gesetzgebung, auf der auch die japanische basiert, war es üblich, Kriminelle und Rebellen zu vestümmeln, üblicherweise durch Abschneiden der Nasen und Ohren. Hideyoshi gab Anweisungen, die koreanische Bevölkerung als "Rebellen" zu behandeln, sollten sie nicht kooperieren. So kam es, dass japanische Soldaten gezielt Jagd auf koreanische Zivilisten, sarumi (sinngemäß "Affenartige") genannt, machten, um deren Nasen und auch Ohren abzuschneiden und als Trophäen zurück nach Japan schickten. Japanische Quellen belegen, dass mindestens 30.000 Nasen nach Japan geschickt wurden, jedoch dürften es in Realität ein Vielfaches mehr gewesen sein. Diese wurden in Salz eingelegt, in einer Parade zur Schau gestellt und rituell bestattet. Jedes Körperteil erhielt seine eigenen Schreine: Die Nasenhügel (hanazuka), Ohrenhügel (miyazuka) und Kopfhügel (kubizuka; Köpfe wurden nur von ranghohen Koreanern und Chinesen abgeschnitten). Diese Schreine stehen noch heute, der bekannteste der mimizuka (eigentlich ein hanazuka) in Kyoto.
Hauptquelle: Rebekah Clements: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598." Past & Present 270:1.
Siehe auch Nam-lin Hur "Atrocity and Genocide in Japan’s Invasion of Korea, 1592–1598." Herausgegeben von Ned Blackhawk et al. The Cambridge World History of Genocide vol. 2.
A young Sultan Abba Jifar of Jimma handing over slaves as tribute to Menelik (circa 1880)
A. Cecchi: "Da Zeila alle frontiere del Caffa"
Amazing paintings by Yevgeny Senigov (early 20th century)
Yevgeny Senigov was a Russian soldier who came to Ethiopia in 1898. He eventually settled there, married an Ethiopian woman and spent the next two decades painting Ethiopian scenes. In the 1920s he finally returned to Russia.
Ethiopian army invading Wolaita (1894)
Rare depiction of Ras Gobana meeting Menelik II (ca. 1880)
Published in "Da Zeila alle frontiere del Caffa vol. 1" Further reading here.
Traditional female hairstyles from Jimma (1880s)
From Jules Borelli "Éthiopie méridionale"
Ethiopian hide shield (mid-19th century)
Ethiopian hide shield covered with blue velvet. Decorated with silverwork panels, silver gilt filgree bosses and a pendant of lion's mane. Looted during the punitive British expedition to Magdala, Ethiopia in 1868 to release European hostages who had been imprisoned by Emperor Tewodros II. It's possible the shield belonged to Tewodros himself. Now in the British Museum.
Territorial evolution of the duchy of Shewa until ca. 1840
From "The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913" by B. Yates.
Would be cool if the new Skaven end game crisis is about summoning the Great Horned Rat on the campaign map
Like as part of the Great Ascendancy the Skaven perform a lenghty ritual to gradually summon the Great Horned Rat. If completed it physically manifests and could be a Legendary Lord or, maybe even cooler, a visual effect on the campaign map granting powerful boni to Skaven factions.
Ethiopian slave raid (ca. 1920)
An Ethiopian army attacking "Shanqella" in western Ethiopia. "Shanqella" is an old Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia) term meaning as much as "black slave" and was applied to a variety of dark-skinned people living in the lowlands of western Ethiopia. These lowlands had been raided for slaves for centuries, but had recently come under nominal state control during Ethiopia's great expansion in the late 19th century. As the lowlanders were regarded as little more than cattle and the local feudal Ethiopian elite and their retinue were practically unpaid by the central government, slave raiding continued into the early 20th century. A particularly large raid was launched in 1912 by prince Lij Iyasu, killing and enslaving tens of thousands. Striving to join the League of Nations, empress Zewditu and ras Tafari (the later Emperor Haile Selassie) issued a decree to finally abolish slavery in 1923.
Mythical Turkish lore unlocked: Turks are still fuming because they lost to Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 16 years ago
Äthiopische Darstellung der Weimarer Botschaft in Addis Abeba, ca. 1927
Gemalt auf Leinwand vom Künstler Walde Mika'el. Zu sehen sind die Botschaft, sechs berittene äthiopische Soldaten mit Deutschlandflaggen, Botschafter Fritz Max Weiß (rechts), zwei Botschaftsangehörige sowie zwei Gärtner im Hintergrund. Weiß und Walde Mika'el waren enge Bekannte. Aus "Mensch und Geschichte in Äthiopiens Volkmalerei" von Girma Fisseha und Walter Raunig.
Scene from "The King" (2019) showing a Byzantine automaton gifted to Henry V
Encyclopaedia finally works again
Now I can finally browse through the factions and spells for hours again
Islamic slave hunt in southern Sudan (1872)
Published in the article "Sclavenfang in Afrika" (Die Gartenlaube, 1872) by Robert Hartmann, who was an eye witness. The attackers are Muslim, Arabic-speaking nomads from the southern Gezira in what is now Sudan, although their tribal affiliation is not specified. The victims are villagers of the animist Dinka people living near the White Nile. Back then Sudan was divided into two spheres: the largely Islamic north governed by the Turks and the non-Islamic, much more decentralized south. Slave raids into the south were common, either by government troops or independently by warlords or tribesmen living along the frontier, as in this case. Hartmann describes how the raiding party ("Gum") of several dozen men would set out and attack the villagers late at night. After initially killing everyone in sight they quickly shifted to killing only those who actively fought back. The batte was only a matter of minutes. Those who survived were enslaved and marched back, either serving the nomads as serfs or being sold to wandering merchants.