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TIGRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIGRE , a See also:

northern See also:province of See also:Abyssinia; one of the three See also:principal divisions of the See also:country, the others being See also:Amhara or See also:Gondar in the centre and See also:Shoa in the See also:south. The See also:ras (or See also:prince) of Tigre has been often a more powerful potentate than the nominal See also:emperor. Tigre contains the See also:town of Axum (q.v.), See also:capital of the See also:ancient Ethiopic See also:Empire. Adua (See also:Adowa, q.v.) is the capital of the province. (See ABYSSINIA.) Tigrina, the See also:dialect spoken in Tigre and Lasta, is nearer the ancient Geez than is Amharic, the See also:official and more widely diffused See also:language of Abyssinia. See J. See also:Schreiber, See also:Manuel de la langue tigrai (See also:Vienna, 1887–1893) ; and L. de Vito, Grammatica della lingua tigrigna (See also:Rome, 1895).

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