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Hamasien was the name of a province including and surrounding
Asmara, now part of modern
Eritrea. The region has been divided and distributed amongst the modern
Maekel,
Debub,
Northern Red Sea,
Gash-Barka and
Anseba regions.
Hamasien's population are predominantly followers of
Oriental Orthodox Christianity and members of the
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church with a considerable minority of
Sunni Muslim,
Roman Catholic and
Lutheran communities. Traditionally being the center of the
Kebessa (for example the Eritrean Highlands), it was the locality of the old palace town of
Debarwa (the capital of
Bahr negus Yeshaq). The border was changed further to place Debarwa in the province of
Seraye before it's present status of being the capital of
Tselema district in the Debub region.
History
The former province was the political and economic center of
Eritrea, and judging from excavations in the Sembel area outside Asmara it has been so since at least
800 BC. The earliest surviving appearance of the name "Hamasien" is believed to have been the region ḤMS²M, for example ḤMŠ, mentioned in a
Sabaic inscription of the
Axumite king
Ezana. The region may have been mentioned as early as
Puntite times by Ancient Egyptian records as 'MSW (for example "Amasu"), a region of Punt. With the decline of the importance of the Bahr negus in the 17th to 19th centuries, the province enjoyed a period of communal rule under councils of village elders, the so called
shimagile who enforced traditional laws which had prevailed
uniquely in the region alongside
feudal authority since ancient times. The region appeared in European maps as 'The Republic of Hamasien'. In the late 19th century, Hamasien was briefly invaded and occupied by the Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV who granted control of the region to a certain
Ras Alula. Ethiopian forces wrestled for control over the region with
Ottomans initially and later with Italian colonialists. Following the death of Emperor Yohannes at the
Battle of Gallabat, Hamasien was occupied by the
Italians, who incorporated it into their colony of Eritrea and making one of its villages, Asmara, the capital of the colony, a status it retains today as the capital of the sovereign country of Eritrea.
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