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24/05/2024

๐Œ๐š๐ก๐›๐ฎ๐›๐š [ ๐๐ˆ๐‹๐ˆ๐‹๐‹๐„๐„], Ethiopia ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น - ๐Ž๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ slave girl who won the heart of a ๐†๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž ( (1820-1840)
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She was born in 1820 in ๐†๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š, a ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž of ๐„๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐š. Her parents named her โ€œ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐žโ€ which literally means ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ or ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ฒ. But she later came to be known as ๐Œ๐š๐ก๐›๐ฎ๐›๐š which means '๐Œ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐' in ๐€๐ซ๐š๐›๐ข๐œ.

Unfortunately when she was 15, civil wa broke out in that particular area in 1835/36. It was during the period that she lost her father and six brothers except her mom. She was enslaved with her mother and taken by the conquering group to Gondar for the rampant slave trade. Then, she departed from her mother for trading purpose, and they never met again in their life.

Later, Bilillee was taken first to Khartoum (Juba or Sudan) and then to Cairo (Egypt) in 1837 by slave traders. At that moment, the son of German king, Paklar, was visiting Southern parts of the world starting from 1835, and reached Egypt the same year. One day, he went to the market to visit and buy slaves and he saw Bilillee among thousands of slaves. On that day, she was ready for sale. The God given beauty of Bilillee touch Paklarโ€™s heart and he became eager to buy. He bought and took her to his residence. He admired her beauty and interested to make her his wife than slave. He succeeded and called her by the name โ€œMAHBUUBAAโ€, which means โ€œMy loveโ€ in Arabic.

Her extra-ordinary goodness and optimistic thinking, loyalty, transparency and calmness attracted his attention, he loved her. He said, โ€œI spent my days with honest person, and I became honest person through timeโ€. He continued his visit with Mahbuubaa for consecutive three years.

Paklar returned back to Europe with Mahbuubaa in 1840. They settled in Muska town while his first wife was in Berlin. Later on, Paklar went Berlin to visit his former wife. In the meantime, Mahbuubaa felt lung

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