Predominantly: Islam Minority: Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Other Agaw peoples, especially Xamirs
Bilen houseEthnolinguistic map of Eritrea; the Bilen live in the dark blue region.
The Bilen (also variously transcribed as Blin, and also formerly known as the Bogo, Bogos[2] or Northern Agaw[3]) are a Cushitic ethnic group in Eritrea. They are primarily concentrated in central Eritrea, in and around the city of Keren and further south toward Asmara, the nation's capital. They are split into two sub-tribes; Bet Tarqe, Bet Tawqe which are split into further clans known as Hissat. The Tawke has six whereas the Tarke has five which each are divided into smaller kinship groups.[4]
^Project, Joshua. "Bilen in Eritrea". Retrieved 10 September 2023.
^Pease, A. E. (1909). The Book of the Lion. Ravenio Books.
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The Bilen (also variously transcribed as Blin, and also formerly known as the Bogo, Bogos or Northern Agaw) are a Cushitic ethnic group in Eritrea. They...
general Zagwe dynasty Bilenpeople "Census 2007" Archived March 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, first draft, Table 5. "Bilen". Joshua Project. Venture...
symbols instead of Ethiopic characters. The Bilen language (ብሊና b(ɨ)lina or ብሊን b(ɨ)lin) is spoken by the Bilenpeople in and around the city of Keren in Eritrea...
Bilen may refer to: BilenpeopleBilen language Bilen (surname) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bilen. If an internal...
after him. German Africanist Leo Reinisch [de] collected a tale from the Bilen language with the title Hámed ábin Jẳgī sīm qǔrás kegantó sanẳ (German:...
religion of all the ethnic groups except for the Tigrinya people, the Bilenpeople, and the Kunama people.[citation needed] The most important Islamic religious...
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The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic...
Lasta. The Bilen then returned to Axum in Ethiopia's Tigray Province, and battled with the natives; in the resulting aftermath, the Bilen returned to...
Lasta. The Bilen then returned to Axum in Ethiopia's Tigray Province, and battled with the natives; in the resulting aftermath, the Bilen returned to...
The Tigrinya people (ትግርኛ, ብሄረ ትግርኛ Təgrəñña), also known as the Biher-Tigrinya or Kebessa, are an ethnic group native to Eritrea. They speak the Tigrinya...
Kunama people The Eparchy of Keren with the highest percentage of the local population (nearly 12%) and with faithful drawn largely from the Bilenpeople The...
the Nubian Desert and visited Kassala, Khartoum and the lands of the Bilenpeople. In 1861 he returned to Germany and published Reisen in Nubien und dem...
Tigrinya, Tigre, or Bilen. Other Agaw languages are spoken but used much less frequently. Agaw people Demographics of Eritrea Tigrinya people Joireman, Sandra...
poorly recorded but most likely a dialect of Awngi) Northern Agaw: Bilen–Xamtanga: Bilen (North) spoken (70,000 speakers) in Eritrea around the town of Keren...
in the West Bank Bilin or Belin (river), a river in Tuva, Russia The Bilenpeople, an ethnic group which mainly inhabits Eritrea and speaks the Blin language...
the 1880s. Apart from Assab, the party also visited the country of the Bilenpeople, then called Bogos. On 26 November 1871 Beccari departed on a voyage...
Eren Bilen (born 2 December 2000) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Darıca Gençlerbirliği on loan from Kocaelispor. Bilen made his...
Mario Bilen (born 23 January 1985 in Vinkovci, Croatia) is a Croatian professional footballer who currently plays for NRFL Division 2 club Ngaruawahia...
through the Ethiopian Highlands led them to Keren in the country of the Bilenpeople, from where Werner Munzinger came to join them, and afterwards to Adwa...
Renvoise et al. 2009 "A. mediterranea" Fonkou et al. 2018 "A. minihominis" Bilen et al. 2018 A. naeslundii corrig. Thompson and Lovestedt 1951 (Approved...
people in mainland Eritrea began converting to Islam. Many of the inland Tigres converted to Islam in the 19th century as well as some of the Bilen....
Mosby's Drug Consult 2006 (16 ed.). Mosby, Inc. 2006. Erden M, Gulcan E, Bilen A, Bilen Y, Uyanik A, Keles M (March 7, 2013). "Pancytopenýa and Sepsýs due to...
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