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- ↑ E. A. Walis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 276.
- ↑ Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805), vol. 2 pp. 451–53
- ↑ Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time (New York: Palgrave, 2000), pp. 47f.
