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TheEncyclopaedia Aethiopica (EAe) is a basic English-languageencyclopaedia forEthiopian andEritrean studies.[1] TheEncyclopaedia Aethiopica provides information in all fields of the discipline, i.e. anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, history, geography, languages and literatures, art, religion, culture and basic data. Although the main audience is academic, most articles are readable also for non-specialists. TheEAe is illustrated with maps and photographs. It employs an in-house form ofromanization ofGeʽez,Amharic, and other languages, which varies greatly from standard formats, such asBGN/PCGN: the emperorMenelik II's name, for example, is written as "Mənilək II". Nevertheless, the EAe romanization scheme is used extensively throughout modern Ethiopic scholarship.
TheEncyclopaedia Aethiopica has hundreds of authors from at least thirty countries. High academic standards are secured by an editorial team based at the Research Unit Ethiopian Studies (since 2009Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies) at theUniversity of Hamburg in Germany, and experts on all important fields and a board of international supervisors supported the editors. The editor-in-chief isSiegbert Uhlig, former holder of the chair of Ethiopian Studies at the Asia-Africa Institute of Hamburg University, and (since 2009) his successorAlessandro Bausi. At a presentation of the Encyclopaedia in Rome, Bausi described some of the process of producing this set of volumes.[2]
The series consists of five volumes (published in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014). The first volume includes letters A–C, the second volume is dedicated to letters D–Ha, the third volume covers He–N, the fourth volume has the terms starting with the letters O–X, and the final volume has the terms for letters Y–Z, including a comprehensive index, supplementary articles, and additional maps and material.
TheEAe is funded by theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, theZeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, theFritz Thyssen Foundation, theGerman Israeli Foundation, theJohanna und Fritz Buch Gedächtnis-Stiftung, theKarl H. Ditze Stiftung, theSigrid Rausing Trust and the University of Hamburg.
In 2010, following the 2007 publication of volume 3 ofEAe, Paolo Marrassini described theEAe as being "confidently classified as the most important systematic work in the field of Ethiopian studies ever undertaken."[1]
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