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Undid revision 1225771811 by Cookiemonster1618 (talk) I think Gojjam is more helpful in this context, as this specifies the southernmost extent of the Agaw habitat in Ethiopia. Gojjam is no longer a political entity in Ethiopia, but as a landscape it is well-known among Ethiopians and Ethiopianists. |
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| related-c = {{hlist| [[Tigrigni|Tigrinya]] |[[Tigrayans]] | | [[Tigre people|Tigre]] |[[Amhara people|Amhara]] | [[Harari people|Harari]] | [[Silte people|Silte]] | [[Zay people|Zay]] | [[Afar people|Afar]] | [[Gurage people|Gurage]] | [[Beja people|Beja]] | [[Beta Israel]] | [[Oromo people|Oromo]] | [[Somalis|Somali]] | [[Saho people|Saho]] | other [[Cushitic peoples|Cushitic]] and [[Ethiopian Semitic languages|Ethiosemitic]] peoples<ref name="Joireman">{{cite book|last=Joireman|first=Sandra F.|author-link=Sandra Joireman|title=Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa: The Allocation of Property Rights and Implications for Development|year=1997|publisher=Universal-Publishers|page=1|isbn=1581120001}}</ref>}}
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The '''Agaw''' or '''Agew''' ({{lang-gez|አገው|Agäw}}, modern ''Agew'') are [[Cushitic
The Agaw peoples in general were historically noted by travelers and outside observers<ref name="Gamst69">{{cite book |last1=Gamst |first1=Frederick C. |title=The Qemant - A Pagan-Hebraic Peasantry of Ethiopia |date=1969 |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |location=New York |page=29}}</ref> to have practiced what some described as a “Hebraic religion”, though some also practiced [[Ethiopian Orthodoxy]],{{sfn|Gamst|1969|p=30}} and many were [[Beta Israel]] Jews. Thousands of Agaw Beta Israel converted to Christianity in the 19th and early 20th century (both voluntarily and forcibly),{{sfn|Gamst|1969|p=119–121}} becoming the [[Falash Mura]].
==History==
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