Thursday 18 December 2014

تقرير اعده قسم التأريخ بوزارة الخارجية البريطانية سنة ١٩٢٠ يقدر بأن اثنين ثلث من سكان اريتربا عام ١٩١٠ كانو من المسلمين


    تقرير اعده قسم التأريخ بوزارة الخارجية البريطانية سنة ١٩٢٠ يقدر بأن اثنين ثلث من سكان اريتربا عام ١٩١٠ كانو من المسلمين
    AMONG the native populations of Eritrea, Mohammedanism possesses a persistent force of expansion; in 1910 two-thirds of the inhabitants were described as belonging to that faith. Since the Italian occupation, some Abyssinian Mohammedans, who had been forced by the intolerance of the Negus to embrace the Coptic religion, have reverted to their former faith. ...In the highlands near the Abyssinian frontier - at Serae, Akkele, and Guzai-the majority of the population are Christian Copts (Monophysites); and a body of Catholic converts, numbering about 6,000, who were formerly under the French Lazarists (expelled in 1895), have been placed under the direction of the Apostolic Prefecture of Eritrea, which was created in September 1894. A small settlement of Swedish missionaries has control over about 500 Evangelical converts. A few tribes still retain a primitive animistic form of religion. On the whole, Italian authorities are agreed that Mohammedanism is making rapid progress in Eritrea.
    Source: E R I T R E A: HANDBOOK PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE. –No. 126 
                                                   London 1920

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