-
wealthy land
owners who
lived on rent
collected from
their tenant framers (
gebbars).
Balabats were
below the
Mesafint (hereditary
nobility "princes") and...
- peasantry. On top of this, the
gebbars and
their families were
required to
perform unpaid work for the landlords. The
gebbars also had to
contribute asrat...
-
striding across the sky. The
Arabs accordingly named the
constellation Al-
gebbar, "the giant", the
Syriac equivalent being Gabbara in old
Syriac version...
- was at this time that the semi-feudal
system of neftenya, balabats, and
gebbars was
introduced to Illubabor. The
Shewan officials and
soldiers who settled...
- land to the new
landlords and the
church made many
local people tenants (
gebbars).
Tenancy in the
southern provinces ranged between 65% and 80% of the holdings...
- and its
misrule led to a m****ive depo****tion due to the
abuses of the
gebbar system, slave-raiding, "famine,
disease and a
growing sense of hopelessness...
- in the 19th century, the semi-feudal
system of neftenya, balabats, and
gebbars was introduced. The
Shewan officials and
soldiers who
settled in Illubabor...
- that time the
inhabitants were
primarily pastoralists.
Around 1935, the
gebbar system was
imposed by the
naftagna and
balabat landowners,
which led to...
