 These towns were frequently attacked by clans from the low land and from the rulers of "seger mereb melash" (which now is a Tigray region in Ethiopia), until the women of each clan decided that to defeat their common enemy and preserve peace the four clans must unite.The men accepted, hence the name "Arbate Asmera".Arbate Asmera literally means, in the Tigrinya language, "the four (feminine plural) made them unite".