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kingdoms, until its conquest in 1894 Yamma was "isolated, and had little to do with its neighbors, its rivers being very difficult to cross. Although first visited by
Europeans in 1614, until the late 1950s this region remained poorly known to outsiders. As a result, its people were said to have
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according to Custom in a fort of rail'd Tower, about six Yards high, liittle more or less, 7 Yards and a half over, as we shall see anon, and the Stairs up to it in the back Part. All the courtiers stood below, and he on the top of the
Elevation, which was not unlike a Cart Wheel, sitting on a
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who inhabit the present-day site of this kingdom consider pejorative. The Yem people who inhabit the land of the former
Kingdom of Yamma have been subjected to prejudice from other Ethiopians, and in the past some
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In 1844, warriors of the
Kingdom of Jimma defeated the army of Yamma, and the king of Yamma was taken prisoner. He regained his freedom in 1847, and resumed his struggle against his more powerful neighbor.
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had been grown in Yamma prior to the late 19th century, but a king forbade its further cultivation because "the cobs were better covered than he, and the 'beards' were like human hair."
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that paid tribute in horses to the
Emperor. The first kings of Yamma belonged to the Halmam Gama dynasty, which was ejected by the Mwa clan, who claimed to have come from the north.
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system for assigning standardized codes to languages has faced criticism for perpetuating the use of the term
Janjero despite its prejudicial origin; the Yem language is coded as
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Carpet, and there it is he gives
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were sought out and taken to a "hospital" on the other side of the Jimma Gibe River, where they were beheaded.
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country, but eventually made his submission to
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preserved a number of "customs so barbarous and strange that there cannot be any more so."
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Garment, and was himself as black as Cole, but had not the
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Yilma, Aklilu (August 1993). "Pilot Survey of Bilingualism in Yem".
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visited the kingdom while looking for a southern route to
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