Shanqella

thumb|Ethiopian painting depicting a battle between the "Amhara people|Amhara and the Shanqella"

Shanqella (, šanqəlla—also spelled Shankella, Shangella, Shankalla, or Shangalla) was first the name of a single Nilotic-speaking community on Ethiopia's western frontier, but it gradually broadened into a catch-all label for many small, politically decentralized peoples who lived along the Ethiopian-Sudanese borderlands (modern Gambela and Benishangul-Gumuz regions), including the Bareya of what is now western Eritrea.