Relating to or characteristic of the Ethiopian province of Tigray or its people.
‘the tiny Tigrayan minority community’
‘During the colonial era, Italy briefly ruled Tigrayan lands.’
‘Among the first peoples to inhabit Ethiopia were Ge'ez speaking agrarians, who settled in the Tigrayan highlands around 2000 BC.’
‘At the same time he adopted the name of a Tigrayan nationalist student who had been killed by the regime.’
‘There are still few Western-trained physicians and life expectancy is low in Tigrayan areas.’
‘Many Tigrayan churches were cut into cliffs or from single blocks of stone, as they were in Turkey and in parts of Greece.’
noun
A native or inhabitant of the Ethiopian province of Tigray.
‘they would prefer the leadership to remain in the hands of a Tigrayan’
‘The regions of Ethiopia and Eritrea where most Tigrayans live are high plateau, separated from the Red Sea by an escarpment) and a desert.’
‘The Tigrayans, in fact, had been converted to Christianity hundreds of years before most of Europe.’
‘Today roughly half the Tigrayans live in Ethiopia and the other half in Eritrea.’
‘What is certain is the federal government in Addis Ababa, dominated by Orthodox Christian Tigrayans and Amharans, is determined the insurgents' aims will not be achieved by violence.’
‘His administration is dominated by minority Tigrayans.’
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