TIGRE  , a See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

Abyssinia; one of the three See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal divisions of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, the others being See also:

• AMHARA

Amhara or See also:

• GONDAR

Gondar in the centre and See also:

• SHOA

Shoa in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south . The See also:

• RAS

ras (or See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince) of Tigre has been often a more powerful potentate than the nominal See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor . Tigre contains the See also:

• TOWN

town of Axum (q.v.), See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Ethiopic See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire . Adua (See also:

• ADOWA (properly ADUA)

Adowa, q.v.) is the capital of the province . (See ABYSSINIA.) Tigrina, the See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect spoken in Tigre and Lasta, is nearer the ancient Geez than is Amharic, the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official and more widely diffused See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of Abyssinia . See J . See also:

• SCHREIBER, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812-1895)

Schreiber, See also:

• MANUEL, EUGENE (1823–1901)
• MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE (1775-1827)
• MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

Manuel de la langue tigrai (See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1887–1893) ; and L. de Vito, Grammatica della lingua tigrigna (See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, 1895) .