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The Kingdom of Janjero (also known as Yamma) was a tiny kingdom located in what is now Ethiopia. It lay in the angle formed by the Omo and the Jimma Gibe Rivers; to the west lay the Kingdom of Jimma and to the south the Kingdom of Garo. Three mountains — Mount Bor Ama, Mount Azulu and Mount Toba — all distinguish the location of the former kingdom. ==Overview== Although one of the Sidamo kingdoms, until its conquest in 1894 Janjero was "isolated, and had little to do with its neighbors, its rivers being very difficult to cross. Although first visited by Europeans in 1614, until the late 1950s this region remained poorly known to outsiders. As a result, its people were said to have preserved a number of "customs so barbarious and strange that there cannot be any more so."〔G.W.B. Huntingford, ''The Galla of Ethiopia; the Kingdoms of Kafa and Janjero'' (London: International African Institute, 1955), p. 137〕 Some of these alleged customs are as follows:〔Based on Huntingford, ''Galla of Ethiopia'', pp. 137-144.〕 * The king had the right to take persons of either sex from their homes to either be sold into slavery, or to work for him. * Maize had been grown in Janjero prior to the late 19th century, but a king forbade its further cultivation because "the cobs were better covered than he, and the 'beards' were like human hair." * Human sacrifice was allegedly practiced until the Ethiopian conquest. * If a man was wounded in war, his relatives killed him to prevent it being said that he died at the hands of the enemy.〔According to Balthazar Tellez, this was the same custom "practis'd among Monkeys, who being once wounded either destroy themselves, or are kill'd by the rest, for they never give over licking, scratching, and clawing the Hurt, till theytear out their Bowels, or otherwise occasion their own Death." (''The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia'', 1710 (Kessinger, 2010 ), p. 197)〕 * When a new king came to the throne, all victims of leprosy and ringworm were sought out and taken to a "hospital" on the other side of the Jimma Gibe River, where they were beheaded. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kingdom of Janjero」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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