Shanqella (Amharic: ሻንቅላ šanqəlla sometimes spelled Shankella, Shangella, Shánkala, Shankalla or Shangalla) is an exonym for a number of Nilotic ethnic groups that lived in the westernmost part of Ethiopia, but are known to have also inhabited more northerly areas until the late nineteenth century.[1] A pejorative, the term was traditionally used by the local Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations to refer in general terms to darker-skinned ethnic groups, particularly to those from communities speaking Nilo-Saharan languages of Western Ethiopia. These were regarded as primitive people and slave reserves by the Abyssinians.[2][3]
^Swainson Fisher, Richard (1852). The book of the world, Volume 2. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
^Resettlement and Rural Development in Ethiopia Social and Economic Research, Training and Technical Assistance in the Beles Valley. F. Angeli. 1992. p. 345. ISBN 978-88-204-7260-3.
^Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic. Ohio University Press. 2007. p. 216. ISBN 9780821417232.
Shanqella (Amharic: ሻንቅላ šanqəlla sometimes spelled Shankella, Shangella, Shánkala, Shankalla or Shangalla) is an exonym for a number of Nilotic ethnic...
surrounding areas of Nilotic and Bantu peoples who were collectively known as Shanqella and Adone (both analogues to "negro" in an English-speaking context)....
Shanqella or barya, derogatory terms originally denoting slave descent, irrespective of the individual's family history. Historically, the Shanqella constituted...
claimed Habesha should refrain from sexual intercourse with Oromo, Muslims, Shanqella, Falasha and animals because it was an abomination. Discrimination against...
the Ethiopian Empire captured slaves primarily from the pagan Nilotic Shanqella and Oromo peoples from their western borderlands, or from newly conquered...
Menelik's forces into non Abyssinian lands of Somalis, Harari, Oromo, Sidama, Shanqella etc., the inhabitants were enslaved and heavily taxed by the gebbar system...
bottom of the hierarchy, and were primarily drawn from the pagan Nilotic Shanqella and Oromo peoples. Also known as the barya (meaning "slave" in Amharic)...
people known as the Shanqellas, who lived around the lower stretches of the Blue Nile. Similar to the baryas, the country of the Shanqellas would become the...
C./3079 A.M., that the Sinites, ancestors of the Shanqella tribe, arrived in Ethiopia. The Shanqella lived in highland Ethiopia for 440 years until they...
Yeshaq built there to commemorate his victory. Yeshaq also invaded the Shanqella region beyond Agawmeder, and to the southeast he fought against Mansur...
living along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border under the collective name Shanqella (Pankhurst 1977). As "Shanquella", they are already mentioned by Scottish...
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