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Dembecha
Dembecha is a town in northwestern Ethiopia 349 km north of Addis Ababa. Located in the Mirab Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2083 meters above sea level. It is one of three towns in Dembecha woreda. Located near Dembecha are hot springs, which were well known and popular throughout Gojjam. Other landmarks include a venerable monastery. History Dembecha is mentioned as one of the places which the Emperor Yohannes passed through between 8 May and 18 July 1683 on his journey from Yebaba to Gondar. Dembecha was included as one of the stages of the Gondar- Boso trade route of the 1840s, according to a list compiled by Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in his ''Geodesie d'Ethiopie''. The British traveller C.T. Beke stayed several times in this town during 1842, beginning with several days during February 1842 while he waited for ''Dejazmach'' Goshu Zewde to complete his homage to '' Ras'' Ali and return. Beke described th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dembecha (woreda)
Dembecha Zuria is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Gojjam Zone, Dembecha is bordered on the west by Bure, on the northwest by Jabi Tehnan, on the north by Dega Damot, and on the east and south by the Misraq Gojjam Zone. Towns in Dembecha include Addis Alem, Dembecha and Yechereka. Rivers in this woreda include the Temchi, over which the Italian Count Salimbeni built the first bridge in Gojjam for ''Negus'' Tekle Haymanot in 1884–1885. Near the town of Dembecha are hot springs which were both well known and popular throughout Gojjam. Demographics Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 129,260, an increase of 44.50% over the 1994 census, of whom 64,683 are men and 64,577 women; 17,913 or 13.86% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 971.29 square kilometers, Dembecha has a population density of 133.08, which is less than the Zone average of 158. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirab Gojjam Zone
West Gojjam ( Amharic: ምዕራብ ጎጃም) or Mirab Gojjam is a Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the former province of Gojjam. West Gojjam is bordered on the south by the Abay River which separates it from the Oromia Region and Benishangul-Gumuz Region, on the west by Agew Awi, on the north and northwest by North Gondar and also on the north by South Gondar, and on the east by East Gojjam. Its highest point is Mount Amedamit. Towns in West Gojjam include Bahir Dar, Adet, Finote Selam, Bure, Quarit, Dega Damot, Sekela, Merawi, and Dembecha. Finote Selam is the capital of the zone. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this Zone has a total population of 2,106,596, of whom 1,058,272 are men and 1,048,324 women; with an area of 13,311.94 square kilometers, West Gojjam has a population density of 158.25. While 184,703 or 8.77% are urban inhabitants, one person was reported to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, north, Djibouti to the Djibouti–Ethiopia border, northeast, Somalia to the Ethiopia–Somalia border, east and northeast, Kenya to the Ethiopia–Kenya border, south, South Sudan to the Ethiopia–South Sudan border, west, and Sudan to the Ethiopia–Sudan border, northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, 13th-most populous country in the world and the List of African countries by population, 2nd-most populous in Africa after Nigeria. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African Plate, Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Tilstone Beke
Charles Tilstone Beke (10 October 1800 – 31 July 1874) was an English traveller, geographer and Biblical critic. Biography Born in Stepney, London, the son of a merchant in the City of London, for a few years Beke engaged in mercantile pursuits. He later studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and for a time practised at the Bar, but finally devoted himself to the study of historical, geographical and ethnographical subjects. The first fruits of Beke's researches appeared in his work ''Origines Biblicae'' or ''Researches in Primeval History'', published in 1834. An attempt to reconstruct the early history of the human race from geological data, it raised a storm of opposition on the part of defenders of the traditional readings of the Book of Genesis, but in recognition of the value of the work, the University of Tübingen conferred upon him the degree of PhD. Between 1837 and 1838, Beke held the post of acting British consul in Saxony. From that time until his death, his attention wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debre Marqos
Debre Markos ( am, ደብረ ማርቆስ, Däbrä Marḳos lit: ''Mount of St. Mark'') is a city, separate woreda, and administrative seat of the East Gojjam Zone in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Etymology Originally named Manqwarar (lit: Cold Place), the town was founded in 1853 by dejazmach Tedla Gwalu, the then ruler of Gojjam. In the 1880s, his successor Negus Tekle Haymanot built the Church of Markos, dedicated to Saint Markos, and named the town after it.."Local History in Ethiopia" The city is named Debre Markos after its principal church, which was established in 1869 and dedicated to St. Markos.The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 6 December 2007) History 19th century In 1869 Debre Markos (then Manqwarar) became the seat ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gideon Force
Gideon Force was a small British and African special force, a with the Sudan Defence Force, Ethiopian regular forces and ( for Patriots). Gideon Force fought the Italian occupation in Ethiopia, during the East African Campaign of the Second World War. The leader and creator of the force was Major (later Colonel) Orde Wingate. At its peak, Gideon Force had fifty officers, twenty British NCOs, 800 trained Sudanese troops and 800 part-trained Ethiopian regulars, a few mortars but no artillery and no air support, except for intermittent bombing sorties. The force operated in difficult country at the end of a long, tenuous supply-line, on which perished nearly all of the used as beasts of burden. Gideon Force and the ejected the Italian forces commanded in Ethiopia by General Guglielmo Nasi (the conqueror of British Somaliland). The campaign took six weeks; and troops were captured along with twelve guns, many machine-guns, rifles, much ammunition and over animals. Gideon F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali II Of Yejju
Ali II of Yejju (c. 1819 – c. 1866) was '' Ras'' of Begemder and the ''de facto'' ruler of the Ethiopian Empire. He was a member of a powerful Oromo dynasty known as the Were Sheh, a dynasty from Wollo Yejju, which the position of regents of the Ethiopian Empire beginning in the reign of the Oromo King Iyoas I during Zemene Mesafint. Appointment as ruler In July 1831, after the death of his cousin, Ras Dori, Ali was appointed Ruler of Begemder and Imperial Regent at the age of 12 in a meeting of the chief nobles of the Were Sheh or "sons of the Sheikh) (which they called themselves ejju.html" ;"title="or [Yejju">or [Yejju as some historians call them, at the dynastic capital of Debre Tabor. As Ali was a minor, a council of regents was appointed from these nobles. However, his mother, Menen Liben Amede, soon came to control this council and exerted much influence over political decisions for the next decade. ''Ras'' Ali was officially a Christians, Christian but some o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ras (title)
Ras ( compare with Arabic Rais or Hebrew Rosh), is a royal title in the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It is one of the powerful non-imperial titles. Historian Harold G. Marcus equates the Ras title to a duke; others have compared it to "prince".''E.g.'', Don Jaide,An Etymology of the word Ras-Tafari – By Ras Naftali, Rasta Liveware, June 2, 2014; accessed 2019.06.24. The combined title of Leul Ras ( Amharic: ልዑል ራስ) was given to the heads of the cadet branches of the Imperial dynasty, such as the Princes of Gojjam, Tigray, ''Ras'' Tafari Makonnen and the Selalle sub-branch of the last reigning Shewan Branch, and meaning "Lord of Lords", the highest title of lord. Historic Ras * Ras Wolde Selassie (1736 - 1816) * Ras Sabagadis Woldu (1780 – 1831) * Ras Alula (1827 – 1897) *Ras Gobana Dacche (1821 – 1889) *Ras Mekonnen Wolde Mikael (1852-1906) * Ras Mengesha Yohannes (1868-1906) * Ras Araya Selassie Yohannes (1869/70-10 June 1888) * Ras Sebhat Areg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goshu Zewde
Goshu Zewde of Gojjam (1783 or 1788-1852) was the governor of Damot, Metcha and Ybaba, the most of Gojjam was, indeed, under the government of his son Birru Goshu. He was elevated to the personal titles of Dejazmatch in 1825 and Ras by Emperor Sahle Dengal in 1848. Goshu Zewde belonged through his mother to the imperial family; his father, the Dejazmach Zewde, Governor of Gojjam, Damot, Agew Medir, Metcha and Ybaba, had died captive of Ras Gugsa, against which he had fought for several years for his independence. The Dejazmach Goshu, although reduced to the government of Damot, Metcha and Ybaba, was still formidable. Princes, churchmen and farmers all held him in high esteem, as much for his high birth as for the goodness of his character. Lik Atskoum, a scholarly high dignitary who was one of the four great imperial judges of Ethiopia, describes Goshu as a great ruler: The French explorer Arnaud d'Abbadie, who was a close friend of the Goshu described it thus: Dejaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dejazmach
Until the end of the Ethiopian monarchy in 1974, there were two categories of nobility in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Mesafint ( gez, መሳፍንት , modern , singular መስፍን , modern , "prince"), the hereditary nobility, formed the upper echelon of the ruling class. The Mekwanint ( gez, መኳንንት , modern , singular መኰንን , modern or am, መኮንን , "officer") were the appointed nobles, often of humble birth, who formed the bulk of the aristocracy. Until the 20th century, the most powerful people at court were generally members of the ''Mekwanint'' appointed by the monarch, while regionally, the ''Mesafint'' enjoyed greater influence and power. Emperor Haile Selassie greatly curtailed the power of the ''Mesafint'' to the benefit of the ''Mekwanint'', who by then were essentially coterminous with the Ethiopian government. The ''Mekwanint'' were officials who had been granted specific offices in the Abyssinian government or court. Higher ranks from the tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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