{{Short description|Administrator or chief}} '''Hegano''' (Harari: ሔገኖ) sometimes called '''Haygan''' or '''Hayjan''' was an administrative title in the Horn of Africa.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hassan |first1=Mohammed |title=Oromo of Ethiopia |publisher=University of London |page=205 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29226/1/10731321.pdf}}</ref>
== Etymology == According to historian Abdurahman Garad, Hegano is an extract from the root Harari word ''Hegan'' “lieutenant” or ''Hegana'' ”to proxy”. Its also utilized in a similar manner by the languages of Silt'e and Wolane people.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hegano |publisher=Encyclopedia Aethiopica |url=https://en.sewasew.com/p/hega-no-(%E1%88%84%E1%8C%88%E1%8A%96)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Leslau |first1=Wolf |title=Etymological Dictionary of Harari |publisher=University of California Press |page=80 |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/515913968/Wolf-Leslau-Etymological-dictionary-of-Harari}}</ref>
== History == Hegano first appears in the fifteenth century emperor Zara Yaqob chronicles which states the rulers of the Abyssinian provinces of Gabar-ge and Wej were designated by this term.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cerulli |first1=Enrico |title=Islam yesterday and today |page=275 |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g-LkxaXWZopjLCFEuWm8wnly2lh4WvFp/view}}</ref> It was also applied by the chiefs of Ganz province and linked to rulers of Bale.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Braukamper |first1=Ulrich |title=Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia |publisher=LitVerlag |pages=47–48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGnyk8Pg9NgC&dq=hegano+islamic+history&pg=PA48}}</ref>
According to sixteenth century Adal writer Arab Faqīh, a Malassay soldier of Adal Sultanate who participated in the Ethiopian-Adal war was styled Alus bin al-Haygan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chekroun |first1=Amélie |title=Le" Futuh al-Habasa" : écriture de l'histoire, guerre et société dans le Bar Sa'ad ad-din |publisher=Université Panthéon-Sorbonne |page=422 |url=https://theses.hal.science/tel-01134623/document}}</ref> During the Adalite occupation of Abyssinia the administrators of Ifat also held the title Hegano based on the Emirate of Harar chronicles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garad |first1=Abdurahman |title=Harar Wirtschaftsgeschichte eines Emirats im Horn von Afrika (1825-75) |publisher=P. Lang |page=59 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Harar/Z_gwAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Harar:+Wirtschaftsgeschichte+des+Emirats+im+Horn+von+Afrika+(1825-75)&dq=Harar:+Wirtschaftsgeschichte+des+Emirats+im+Horn+von+Afrika+(1825-75)&printsec=frontcover}}</ref> Towards the end of the sixteenth century the ruler of Aussa a subordinate of Harar based Adal Sultanate was known as Hegano Hashim.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mercier |first1=Héloïse |title=Writing and rewriting history from Harar to Awsa : a reappraisal of the Taʾrīkh al-mulūk |publisher=Annales d'Éthiopie |page=47 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/ethio_0066-2127_2022_num_34_1_1711}}</ref>
== See also == * Kabir * Malak
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Horn of Africa Category:Adal Sultanate Category:Royal titles Category:Noble titles Category:Aristocracy