192:("History of the People of Ethiopia") was published in 1922 and was Taye's first published historical work. The book was reprinted with some changes multiple times over the years, in 1927, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1965 and 1971, with its first English translation appearing in 1987 based on the first edition. It is largely a collection of legends and folk histories on the different peoples in Ethiopia. The book used several Ethiopian and European sources and was referred to by
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province in March 1861. He initially began his education in a church school but this was interrupted when his father and uncle left the province and his mother died in an epidemic in 1867. Taye wandered in search of his father and uncle and reached as far as
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mission school in nearby
Monkulu in 1874. The mission did not employ Taye for translating and teaching work until 1886. He would later return to his home province in 1875. Taye's education allowed him to become proficient in the
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in one of his books. It was intended to be part of a larger work which looked at the history of the world, the history of
Ethiopia and then finally the history of the Ethiopian kings, but this was interrupted by the
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Tirunesh in Monkullo in February 1889, but she died four days before the wedding. He later married a woman named Tsehayitu, who died several years later. His last wife was
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Taye died in August 1924. His religious opponents refused to allow him to be buried at the
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Taye claim the book was written by Taye, not
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Two unpublished works – "Dictionary" and "Remedy for the Soul" – refute elements and practices of the
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and would later award him with a gold medal. Taye's first published historical work was a social history of
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questioned Taye several times on his faith. After Menelik II fell ill in 1909, Taye was accused of professing the religion of
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was administrating the empire during the illness of her husband and she was the head of the traditional Orthodox nobility.
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