also spelled Tigrai, or Tegray,Tegaru,Tigres
Tigray, Is a name of a Northern Region in Ethiopia and central part of Eritrea . The Tegaru
people speak Tigrinya, a Semitic language related to Ge'ez.
The
people of Tigray are descendants of a Semitic people who intermixed with the Cushitic inhabitants of the region and founded the
Christian kingdom of Axum.