Marya

The Marya are a tribe in western Eritrea. They are mostly shepherds and farmers they inhabit the middle valley of the Anseba River in the Keren District. There split into two clans: the Marya qeyih and the marya tselam. They are related to the Mensa, Hazo and Tora peoples,{{cite book |last=Brill |title=First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 5 |page=310}} and form a subgroup of the Tigre people.{{Cite book|last=Skutsch|first=Carl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXYKAgAAQBAJ&q=tigre+population+sudan&pg=PA1200|title=Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities|date=2013-11-07|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-19388-1|pages=1200–1201|language=en}}