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Agawa River, Ontario
Agawa may refer to: * Agawa (surname) * Agawa District, Kōchi, Japan ** Agawa, Kōchi, a village in Agawa District * Agawa River, a river in Ontario, Canada * Agawa Canyon, a canyon in Ontario, Canada See also * Agaw people, in the Horn of Africa ** Agaw languages The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken by several groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages. Classification The Centr ..., spoken by the Agaw * Agawam (other) {{Disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agawa (surname)
Agawa (written: 阿川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese writer *, Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and writer *, Japanese writer and television personality {{surname, Agawa Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agawa District, Kōchi
is a district located in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of October 10, 2018, the district has an estimated population of 26,601 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematical ... of 33.09 persons per km2. The total area is 803.67 km2. Towns and villages * Ino * Niyodogawa Mergers *On October 1, 2004 the village of Gohoku, along with the village of Hongawa, from Tosa District, merged into the expanded town of Ino. *On August 1, 2005 the town of Ikegawa, and the village of Agawa merged with the village of Niyodo, from Takaoka District, to form the new town of Niyodogawa. *On January 1, 2008 the town of Haruno merged into the expanded city of Kōchi. References Districts in Kōchi Prefecture {{Kochi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agawa, Kōchi
was a village located in Agawa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 2,927 and a density of 34.80 persons per km². The total area was 84.12 km². On August 1, 2005, Agawa, along with the town of Ikegawa (also from Agawa District), and the village of Niyodo (from Takaoka District), was merged to create the town of Niyodogawa (in Agawa District), and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go .... External links Official website of Niyodogawa Dissolved municipalities of Kōchi Prefecture {{Kochi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agawa River
The Agawa River is a river in Algoma District, Ontario, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada which empties into Agawa Bay on Lake Superior at the community of Agawa Bay, south of Wawa, Ontario. History The Agawa Rock rock painting, pictographs are located on a rock face extending into Lake Superior in Agawa Bay. Some paintings are at least 1500 years old, while others may only date back to the 1800s. "''Aagawaa''" means "sheltered place" in the Ojibwe language. The scenery of this region inspired a number of paintings by the Group of Seven (artists), Group of Seven. Economy The Algoma Central Railway runs an excursion train which leaves Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and travels through the Agawa Canyon. Agawa Bay and the lower parts of the river are located in Lake Superior Provincial Park. Tributaries *Little Agawa River *Eleven Mile Creek *Blackspruce Creek *Weichel Creek *Parch Creek *Regan River *Sane Creek Settlements *Agawa Bay *Canyon *O'Connor *Eton *Millwood See also *List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agawa Canyon
The Agawa Canyon is a shallow canyon located deep in the sparsely populated Algoma District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was created 1.2 billion years ago by faulting along the Canadian Shield and then enlarged by the erosive action of the Agawa River. The Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park is only accessible by hiking trail or the Agawa Canyon station on the Algoma Central Railway, and is located by rail north west of Sault Ste. Marie. Geography At their highest point, the walls of the Agawa Canyon rise above the river. The park is situated in the transitional zone between the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Forest region and the Boreal Forest, with diverse and numerous representative flora from both regions present in the canyon. Annual snowfall in the canyon exceeds , with a record snowfall of recorded during the winter of 1989. Four waterfalls dot the canyon's rim and feed the Agawa River. The North and South Black Beaver Falls are high. The tallest waterfall in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agaw People
The Agaw or Agew ( gez, አገው ''Agäw'', modern ''Agew'') are a pan-ethnic identity native to the northern highlands of Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea. They speak the Agaw languages, which belong to the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, and are therefore linguistically closest related to peoples speaking other Cushitic languages. The Agaw peoples in general were historically noted by travelers and outside observers to have practiced what some described as a “Hebraic religion”, though some practiced Ethiopian Orthodoxy, and many were Beta Israel Jews. A small minority have adopted Islam in the last few centuries. Thousands of Agaw Beta Israel converted to Christianity in the 19th and early 20th century (both voluntarily and forcibly), becoming the Falash Mura, though many are now returning to Judaism. History The Agaw are perhaps first mentioned in the third-century ''Monumentum Adulitanum'', an Aksumite inscription recorded by Cosmas Indicopleustes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agaw Languages
The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken by several groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages. Classification The Central Cushitic languages are classified as follows (after Appleyard): * Awngi (South Agaw) spoken southwest of Lake Tana, much the largest, with over 350,000 speakers :(Kunfal, spoken west of Lake Tana, is poorly recorded but most likely a dialect of Awngi) * Northern Agaw: :*Bilen–Xamtanga: ::* Bilen (North) spoken (70,000 speakers) in Eritrea around the town of Keren and eastern Sudan around the town of Kassala ::* Xamtanga (Central Agaw; also called Khamir, Khamta) 143,000 speakers in the North Amhara Region :* Qimant (Western Agaw) nearly extinct, spoken by the Qemant in Semien Gondar Zone ::(dialects Qwara – nearly extinct, spoken by Beta Israel formerly living in Qwara, now in Israel; Kayla – extinct, formerly spoken by so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
