Classic DACB Collection

All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.

Mataa

Alternate Names: Mätä’a, Abba or Libanos
400s500s
Ancient Christian Church
Ethiopia

Mäta or Mätä‘a, Abba: see Libanos, Abba.


This article is reproduced, with permission, from The Dictionary of Ethiopian Biography, Vol. 1 ‘From Early Times to the End of the Zagwé Dynasty c. 1270 A.D.,’ copyright © 1975, edited by Belaynesh Michael, S. Chojnacki and Richard Pankhurst, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All rights reserved.