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Afdera (Ethiopian District)
Afdera (Afar language, Afar: ''Afxeera'') is one of the districts of Ethiopia, woredas, in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the salt lake (geography), saline Lake Afdera, located in the southern part of the Afar Depression. Part of the Administrative Zone 2 (Afar), Administrative Zone 2, Afdera is bordered on the southwest by the Administrative Zone 4 (Afar), Administrative Zone 4, on the west by Erebti and Abala (Ethiopian District), Abala, on the north by Berhale (Ethiopian District), Berhale, on the northeast by Eritrea, and on the southeast by Administrative Zone 1 (Afar), Administrative Zone 1. The largest town of this woreda is Afdera, Ethiopia, Afdera. Overview The highest peak in Afdera is Mallahle, Mount Mallahle (1875 meters); other mountains in this woreda include Erta Ale and Borawli. Mining is the principal industry in this woreda. The best known resource extracted is salt; according to the Afar Regional Mining and Energy Office, there are 300 active l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concealer Moth
Oecophoridae (concealer moths) is a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. The phylogeny and systematics of gelechoid moths are still not fully resolved, and the circumscription of the Oecophoridae is strongly affected by this. Taxonomy and systematics * Pleurotinae Toll, 1956 * Deuterogoniinae Spuler, 1910 * Unplaced ** '' Colchia'' Lvovsky, 1995 Also possibly included is the Peruvian species '' Auxotricha ochrogypsa'', described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 as the sole member of its genus. In the past, the family was circumscribed more widely and included the following subfamilies: * Amphisbatinae (sometimes in Depressariinae) * Autostichinae * Depressariinae (including Cryptolechiinae) * Hypertrophinae * Metachandinae * Oecophorinae (including Chimabachinae, Deuterogoniinae, Peleopodinae, Philobotinae) * Stathmopodinae * Stenomatinae Some treatments include only the Oecophorinae and Stathmopodinae here, placing the others elsewhere in the Gelechoidea (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallahle
Mallahle (also Mallali or Aruku) is a stratovolcano on the border of Ethiopia and Eritrea, with a 6 km wide caldera. Mallahle is the highest peak in the Afdera region of Ethiopia. It is located in the Danakil Horst at the southern end of the Danakil Alps The Danakil Alps are a highland region in Ethiopia and Eritrea with peaks over 1000 metres in height and a width varying between 40 and 70 kilometres. The area is known in the Afar language as Arrata. The alps lie along the southern Red Sea to th .... It makes up part of the Bidu volcanic complex (with the Nabro Volcano, Bara Ale and Sork Ale). References Stratovolcanoes of Ethiopia Calderas of Ethiopia Calderas of Eritrea {{Ethiopia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Maria Giulietti
Giuseppe Maria Giulietti (28 December 1847 – 25 May 1881) was an Italian soldier, geographer and explorer. He was born in a wealthy family in Casteggio, province of Pavia. He enrolled in the Corpo Volontari Italiani (Italian Volunteers Corps) which fought against the Austrians in 1866, during the Italian independence wars. Later he was called by Giacomo Doria for his expedition to save the Antinori expedition in Shewa, a principality of Ethiopia. Afterwards he led several explorations in that country. During the last of them, he was killed by the Afar tribes, together with Ettore Biglieri and thirty-one seamen of the ship ''Ettore Fieramosca'' in the southern Afar Depression. The location of the massacre was identified by L.M. Nesbitt and his two Italian associates as the Tio waterhole in 1928, who erected a cairn to mark the spot. The explorers were then threatened by the local Afar who believed that they would then exact revenge for the deaths over a generation ago, and Nes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Bianchi
Gustavo Bianchi (21 August 1845 - 7 October 1884) was a nineteenth-century Italian explorer. He travelled in Ethiopia and Eritrea, on the eve of the Italian colonial expansion. Early life He was born in Ferrara, then part of the Papal States, and grew up in nearby Argenta. He started a military career in the Italian army: he studied at the Military Academy of Modena, and took part to the Third Italian War of Independence. However, he later had to quit because of myopia, and found a job in a merchant firm in Milan. In 1876, as Orazio Antinori from the Italian Geographical Society led an exploring expedition to Ethiopia, Bianchi unsuccessfully applied to join it. Two years later however the Milan-based Society for Commercial Exploration in Africa organized another journey to the area, under the direction of Pellegrino Matteucci, and this time he managed to join it. First travel The expedition, which was financed by a consortium of Lombard industrialists, had the purpose to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopian News Agency
The Ethiopian News Agency ( ''Ye-Ityopya Zéna Agelgelot'' (IZA) or ENA) is the official news agency of the government of Ethiopia. It is the oldest news organisation in Ethiopia. History and Activities Established in 1942 as a national wire news center, the Ethiopian News Agency has been gathering, compiling and disseminating news stories to the public through the mass media, websites and various social media platforms. As the oldest and experienced newscaster in the country, ENA has been disseminating news and related stories, documentary and TV programs through its 38 branch offices across the country. Moreover, the Agency publishes a bi-monthly magazine called Negari which features topical local and international issues and agenda of paramount importance. The agency broadcasts its news and programs in six local and foreign languages: Amharic, Afan Oromo, Tigrigna, English, Arabic and French. ENA was restructured and made accountable to the House of Peoples’ Representativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djibouti City
Djibouti (also called Djibouti City and Jibuti in early Western texts) is the capital city of the Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti. It is located in the coastal Djibouti Region on the Gulf of Tadjoura. Djibouti has a population of around 780,000 inhabitants, which counts for 73% of the country's population. The settlement was founded in 1888 by the French, on land leased from the ruling Somali and Afar Sultans. During the ensuing period, it served as the capital of French Somaliland and its successor the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. History There is evidence of human settlement on the eastern coastline of Djibouti dating back to the Bronze Age. From 1862 until 1894, the land to the north of the Gulf of Tadjoura was called ''Obock'' and was ruled by Issa clan, Issa and Afar people, Afar Sultans, local authorities with whom France signed various treaties between 1883 and 1887 to first gain a foothold in the region.Raph Uwechue, ''Africa year book and who's who'', (Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopian Roads Authority
The Ethiopian Road Transport Authority (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ መንገዶች ባለስልጣን, formerly called Road Transport Administration or RTA) is a public transport authority based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken .... It was founded as the Road Transport Administration in 1967 by Proclamation No 256/67. History The Ethiopian Road Transport Authority was founded as the Road Transport Administration in 1967 by Proclamation No 256/67 but restructured and became the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in 1976, following proclamation No 107/76. The RTA states that its mission is "to ensure the provision of a modern, integrated and safe Road transport services to meet the needs of all the communities for strong and unitary economic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asseb
Assab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic. After the Italian government took control of the port in 1882, it laid the foundations for the formation of the colony of Italian Eritrea, which became the independent country of Eritrea following its independence from Ethiopia in the 1990s. History Assab is about northwest of the ancient city of Arsinoe Epidires. 19th century Assab had limited contact with the hinterland, and until the middle of the 19th century it was nothing more than a tiny Afar fishing village with a population of only 100 people and twenty huts. It gained considerable attention on 15 November 1869 when the port of Assab was bought by the Italian missionary Giuseppe Sapeto on behalf of the Rubattino Shipping Company. Upon reaching Assab, Sapeto found two sultans, the brothers Hasan ibn Ahmed and Ibrahim i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awash, Ethiopia
Awash Subah is a market town in central Ethiopia. Located in Administrative Zone 3 of the Afar Region, above a gorge on the Awash River, after which the town is named, the town lies on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, which crosses the gorge by a bridge there. It is the largest settlement in Awash Fentale woreda. Awash lies outside the Awash National Park, which is known for its wildlife, for the Mount Fentale caldera and for the Filwoha Hot Springs. Its market is held on Mondays, where Afar and Kereyu crafts can be founref name=NAI-we"Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute websiteArchivedat the Wayback Machine on February 28, 2008. History An iron bridge over the Awash had been built at the present location of Awash by Emperor Menelik II's favorite, Alfred Ilg, around 1890; this bridge replaced an earlier wooden one. The construction had to face the great difficulty of transporting the girders from Djibouti, but once the material had arrived, the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walta Information Center
Walta Media and Communication Corporate S.C. or Walta, previously called Walta Information and Public Relations Center S.C., or Walta Information Center, is an Ethiopian commercial media conglomerate owned and operated by the Ethiopian government. Walta, located in Addis Ababa, was founded in 1994 and supplies the Ethiopian News Agency and other media with local and national news. History Walta has been affiliated with the Ethiopian government since 1992 or earlier. , Walta supported the federal Ethiopian government and the Prosperity Party. Contents As part of the media conglomerate, there is an online medium in English, Amharic and Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ... with local, national, and international news and a TV station, Walta TV, broadcasting ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in general (being the source of the essential dietary minerals sodium and chlorine), and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and is known to uniformly improve the taste perception of food. Salting, brining, and pickling are ancient and important methods of food preservation. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 6000 BC, when people living in the area of present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts; a salt works in China dates to approximately the same period. Salt was prized by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Hittites, Egyptians, and Indians. Salt became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
