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Wereta
Woreta (also transliterated as Wereta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, east of Lake Tana and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1828 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Fogera woreda. History Wereta appears in the ''Royal chronicles'' during the first reign of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis (1779-1784), as the place whence ''Ras'' Hailu Eshte fled after escaping imprisonment in Gondar. Wereta was included as one of the stages of the Gondar- Boso trade route of the 1840s, located immediately south of the Reb River, according to a list compiled by Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in his ''Geodesie d'Ethiopie''. 20th Century In 1967, telephone service reached Wereta, and in 1978, the town received electricity. In the 1990s, a new campus for the Wereta College of Agriculture was designed by National Consultants (chief architect Assefa Bekele), with a proposed budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wereta College Of Agriculture
Woreta (also transliterated as Wereta) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, east of Lake Tana and south of Addis Zemen, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1828 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Fogera woreda. History Wereta appears in the ''Royal chronicles'' during the first reign of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis (1779-1784), as the place whence ''Ras'' Hailu Eshte fled after escaping imprisonment in Gondar. Wereta was included as one of the stages of the Gondar- Boso trade route of the 1840s, located immediately south of the Reb River, according to a list compiled by Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in his ''Geodesie d'Ethiopie''. 20th Century In 1967, telephone service reached Wereta, and in 1978, the town received electricity. In the 1990s, a new campus for the Wereta College of Agriculture was designed by National Consultants (chief architect Assefa Bekele), with a proposed budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fogera
Fogera (Amharic: ፎገራ) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Fogera is part of the Debub Gondar Zone. The district is bordered on the south by Dera, on the west by Lake Tana on the north by the Reb which separates it from Kemekem, on the northeast by Ebenat, and on the east by Farta. The administrative center for this woreda is Wereta City. Other cities in Fogera include Alem Ber city. Geography and climate The altitude of this woreda ranges from 1774 to 2415 meters above sea level. Rivers in Fogera include the Gumara and the Reb, both of which drain into Lake Tana. A survey of the land in Fogera shows that 44.2% is arable or cultivable and another 20% is irrigated, 22.9% is used for pasture, 1.8% has forest or shrubland, 3.7% is covered with water, and the remaining 7.4% is considered degraded or other. Some 490 square kilometers of land adjacent to Lake Tana is subject to regular and severe flooding. The woreda was heavily affected by the flash floods in Ethiopia t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debub Gondar Zone
South Gondar (Amharic: ደቡብ ጎንደር) (or Debub Gondar) is a Zone in the Ethiopian Amhara Region. This zone is named for the city of Gondar, which was the capital of Ethiopia until the mid-19th century, and has often been used as a name for the local province. South Gondar is bordered on the south by East Gojjam, on the southwest by West Gojjam and Bahir Dar, on the west by Lake Tana, on the north by North Gondar, on the northeast by Wag Hemra, on the east by North Wollo, and on the southeast by South Wollo; the Abbay River separates South Gondar from the two Gojjam Zones. The highest point in South Gondar is Mount Guna (4,231 meters). Towns and cities in this zone include Addis Zemen, Debre Tabor and Wereta. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this Zone has a total population of 2,051,738, and an increase of 16% over the 1994 census, of whom 1,041,061 are men and 1,010,677 women. With an area of 14 ... [...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 north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the 13th-most populous country in the world and the 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 and Somali tectonic plates. Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out to the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithic period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Weld Blundell
Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell (1852 – 5 February 1935) was an English traveller in Africa, archaeologist, philanthropist and yachtsman. He shortened his surname from Weld Blundell to Weld, in 1924. Life to 1922 He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He travelled to Persia in 1891, then for a decade 1894 to 1905 in North Africa and East Africa. He was a correspondent for the ''Morning Post'' during the Second Boer War. Expeditions included *1891-2 Persepolis, with Lorenzo Giuntini, making casts of the reliefs *1894-5 Libya and Cyrenaica, creating a photographic record *1898 Abyssinia Expedition with Lord Lovat and Reginald KoettlitzRichard Snailham" Europeans on the Blue Nile Region" Anglo-Ethiopian Society, 1992 (accessed 29 June 2009) *1904-5 Around Addis Ababa *1922 Weld Blundell Expedition, found the Weld-Blundell Prism, now in the Ashmolean Museum In 1921–1922 he presented the Weld Blundell Collection to the University of Oxford. From 1923 He backed a 1923 expedition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)
The Central Statistical Agency (CSA; Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ) is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growth, as well as to act as an official training center in that field. It is part of the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. The Director General of the CSA is Samia Zekaria. Before 9 March 1989 the CSA was known as the Central Statistical Office (CSO). The CSA has 25 branch offices. Besides the capital city of Addis Ababa, the cities and towns with offices are: Ambo, Arba Minch, chiro, Asayita, Assosa, Awasa, Bahir Dar, Debre Berhan, Dessie, Dire Dawa, Gambela, Goba, Gondar, Harar, Hosaena, Inda Selassie, Jijiga, Jimma, Mek'ele, Mizan Teferi, Adama, Negele Borana, Nekemte, and Sodo. National censuses of the population and housing have been taken in 1984, 1994, and 2007. Information from the 1994 and 2007 censuses ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahir Dar
Bahir Dar ( amh, ባሕር ዳር, 3=sea shore) is the capital city of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Bahir Dar is one of the leading tourist destinations in Ethiopia, with a variety of attractions in the nearby Lake Tana and Blue Nile river. The city is known for its wide avenues lined with palm trees and a variety of colorful flowers. In 2002, it was awarded the UNESCO Cities for Peace Prize for addressing the challenges of rapid urbanization. History Origins Originally the settlement was called Bahir Giyorgis. Between 1810 and 1900, Bahir Dar had 1,200 to 2,000 inhabitants.Crummey, D. (1987) Towns in Ethiopia: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In: Ahmed Zekaria, B. Z. T. B. (ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Centenary of Addis Abeba, November 24-25, 1986., pp. 130–144. Seltene Seyoum (2000Land Alienation and the Urban Growth of Bahir Dar 1935-74. In: Anderson, D. M. & Rathborne, R. (eds.) Africa’s urban past. James Currey, Oxford./ref> It was devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopian Birr
The birr ( am, ብር) is the unit of currency in Ethiopia. It is subdivided into 100 ''santim''. In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie I formally requested that the international community use the name ''Ethiopia'' (as it had already been known internally for at least 1,600 years) instead of the exonym ''Abyssinia'', and the issuing ''Bank of Abyssinia'' also became the ''Bank of Ethiopia''. Thus, the pre-1931 currency could be considered the ''Abyssinian birr'' and the post-1931 currency the ''Ethiopian birr'', although it was the same country and the same currency before and after. 186 billion birr were in circulation in 2008 ($14.7 billion or €9.97 billion). History First birr, 1800–1936 In the 18th and 19th centuries, Maria Theresa thalers and blocks of salt called "amole tchew" (አሞሌ) served as currency in Ethiopia. The ''thaler'' was known locally as the ''Birr'' (literally meaning "silver" in Ge'ez and Amharic) or ''talari'' (ታላሪ). The Maria Theresa ''thal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Thomson D'Abbadie
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie d'Arrast (3 January 1810 – 19 March 1897) was an Irish-born French explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in EthiopiaAlthough referred to as Ethiopia here, the region that they traveled is more accurately defined as Abyssinia or in today's geography northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. during the first half of the 19th century. He was the older brother of Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, with whom he travelled. Biography d'Arrast was born a British subject, in Dublin, Ireland, from a partially Basque noble family of the French province of Soule. His father, Michel Abbadie, was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish. His grandfather Jean-Pierre was a lay abbot and a notary in Soule. The family moved to France in 1818 where the brothers received a careful scientific education. In 1827, Antoine received a bachelor's degree in Toulouse. Starting in 1829, he began his education in Paris, where he studied law. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reb River
Reb River (also transliterated as Rib; Amharic "bottom, buttocks") is a river of north-central Ethiopia which empties into Lake Tana at . The river originates on the slopes of Mount Guna, and flows west through Kemekem woreda. It has no significant tributaries. Background R.E. Cheesman described the Reb in 1936 as bringing "down quantities of dark sand, and we passed banks of it deposited on the lake shore. The river bar, 600 yards out in the lake, is a semicircle, and parties of travellers with loaded donkeys were passing round it instead of crossing the river." Merchants based in Yifag would transport bars of salt or ''amoleh'' in small boats or ''tankwas'' down the Reb to Zege on the lake to trade for coffee. The Reb was also the site of one of several stone bridges built during the time of the Jesuit missionaries or the reign of Fasilides. The river consisting of five arches, it was located from the estuary and enabled travel between Gondar and Debre Tabor. The five arche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boso (Gojjam)
Boso may refer to: People *Boso of Provence (850–887), Frankish nobleman and king *Boso the Elder (c. 800–855), a Frank from the Bosonid dynasty *Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885–936), Italian nobleman *Boso II of Arles (d. 967), Frankish count *Boso of Merseburg (d. 970), German bishop *Boso of Sant'Anastasia (d. c. 1127), cardinal and bishop of Turin *Boso of Santa Pudenziana (d. c. 1178), Italian cardinal *Greg Boso (b. 1957), West Virginia State Senator *Cap Boso (b. 1963), American football player Places *Bōsō Peninsula, in Japan * Boso (Gojjam), a marketplace in Bure, Ethiopia *Boso, Ghana, a village See also *Bōsō Hill Range The is a mountain range on the Bōsō Peninsula of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The highest point in the Bōsō Mountain Range is at Mount Atago, with an altitude of . The hill range runs from roughly in a line from Mobara or Ōamishirasato to Kisa ... * Bozo (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hailu Eshte
Hailu (Amharic: ኃይሉ) is a male name of Ethiopian origin that may refer to: *Hailu Shawul (born 1936), Ethiopian engineer and the chairman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy *Hailu Tekle Haymanot (1868–1950), Ethiopian army commander and nobleman *Hailu Mekonnen (born 1980), Ethiopian long-distance runner and two-time World Cross Country medallist *Aynalem Hailu (born 1986), Ethiopian footballer *Hailu Negussie (born 1978), Ethiopian marathon runner and 2005 Boston Marathon winner *Hailu Yimenu (died 1991), Ethiopian Prime Minister *Meseret Hailu (born 1990), Ethiopian female long-distance runner and world half marathon champion *Kassa Hailu (1818–1868), birth name of Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II See also *Haifeng dialect of Hakka, also known as Hailu or Haiufeng *Haile (other) *Hailuoto Hailuoto (; sv, Karlö) is a Finnish island in the northern Baltic Sea and a municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia region. The population of Hailuoto is (), which make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
