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The Weyto (also Wayto)[note 1] (Amharic: ወይጦ)[3] are a caste living in the Amhara region along the shore of Lake Tana in northern Ethiopia.[4] They worship the Nile River.[5] They currently live in Bahir Dar, Abirgha, Dembiya[3][6] and Alefa.[7] The Weyto also made up part of the population of the Blue Nile Falls and Fogera,[8][9][10][6] where currently their presence has not been ascertained.[3]
The Weyto are thought to have been one of the Konso tribes that migrated to northern Ethiopia, assimilating through time as a caste among the dominant Amhara people.[11][12] Their endogamous stratum has existed in the hierarchical Amhara society, one of the largest ethnic groups found in Ethiopia and neighboring regions.[13] Their hereditary occupation was hunting and leather work (tanning).[11]
- ^ Consociazione Turistica Italiana (1938) Guida dell’ Africa Orientale Italiana, Milano, Italia.
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- ^ Appelhans, N. (2016). Urban Planning and Everyday Urbanisation: A Case Study on Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (Edition 1). transcript Verlag.
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oestigaardwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Zerihun Abebe (2001), Minority Identity and Ethnic Politics in Ethiopia: The Case of the Weyto in Lake Tana Area, MPhil Thesis, University of Tromsø.
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Amhara Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived 2010-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.10, 2.13, 2.17, Annex II.2
- ^ Gamst, Frederick. 1984. "Wayto", in Weeks, R. V. (ed.), Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey, 2nd edition, (2 vols.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- ^ BRUCE James M. (1813 [1790]). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, vol.5, Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Company.
- ^ LEJEAN Guillaume (1865), “Voyage en Abyssinie (1862-1863)”. Le Tour du Monde. Nouveau journal des voyages, vol. 12, Paris: Hachette, 258-272.
- ^ a b Donald N. Levine (10 December 2014). Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society. University of Chicago Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-226-22967-6.
- ^ Abebe Haile Gebremariam; Million Bekele; Andrew Ridgewell (2009). Small and Medium Forest Enterprises in Ethiopia. IIED. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-84369-720-6., Quote: "Well known castes include the fuga among the Gurage, the wato among the Oromo and the weyto among the Amhara."
- ^ Central Statistical Agency, Ethiopia. "Table 5: Population Size of Regions by Nations/Nationalities (Ethnic Group) and Place of Residence: 2007" (PDF). Summary and Statistical Report of the 2007 Population and Housing Census Results. United Nations Population Fund. p. 84. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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