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TIGRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIGRE  , a

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northern province of Abyssinia; one of the three
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principal divisions of the country, the others being
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Amhara or
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Gondar in the centre and
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Shoa in the south . The
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ras (or prince) of Tigre has been often a more powerful potentate than the nominal emperor . Tigre contains the
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town of Axum (q.v.), capital of the ancient Ethiopic
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Empire . Adua (Adowa, q.v.) is the capital of the province . (See ABYSSINIA.) Tigrina, the dialect spoken in Tigre and Lasta, is nearer the ancient Geez than is Amharic, the official and more widely diffused language of Abyssinia . See J . Schreiber, Manuel de la langue tigrai (Vienna, 1887–1893) ; and L. de Vito, Grammatica della lingua tigrigna (Rome, 1895) .

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