A peer-reviewed history of one Ethiopian regional ruler's own early-20th-century land taxation system, documenting asrat as a state-administered tithe on agricultural produce collected by secular officials, distinct from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's own separately-administered monastic land holdings.
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Tier 1: a peer-reviewed regional economic history journal article. Documents asrat (glossed in the text as "tithe," also called ase qolo) as it actually operated under a named early-20th-century Ethiopian regional ruler: a state land tax of one tenth of agricultural produce, collected by the ruler's own civil officials (mesle, gult gash, cheqa shum, later renamed gotera asekafach), converted to a fixed cash levy in 1910, and administered separately from the church's own monastic gult land holdings, which the article names but does not describe as funded by asrat. This is real, direct evidence for what the historical record documents asrat AS: a state-administered land tribute, not a demonstrated personal member-to-parish giving mechanism, which is the distinction the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church open question on this axis turns on. Citation
AuthorGeremew Eskezia
PublisherEthiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar University
URLhttps://journals.bdu.edu.et/index.php/ejss/article/download/94/172
Source TypeJournal article
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- Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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