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Amedzofe is a settlement north of Ho in the mountainous region of the
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Amedzofe is a settlement north of Ho in the mountainous region of the Ho Municipal District
Ho Municipal Assembly is one of the 25 administrative Districts in the Volta Region, Ghana. It is made up of total land size of 2,361 km2 and a total estimated population of 213,960 in 2017, 105,195 being males and 108,765 are females. Originally ...
of the Volta Region
Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi- ...
of Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
. It is presently located in the newly created Ho-West District Assembly. Amedzofe is a settlement in the mountains, and can boast of four natural gifts: the Ote tayFalls, Mount Gemi, the weather and the landscape. It has played a role in the 19th-century Anglo-Ashanti Wars
The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan people, Akan interior of the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African ...
. The Amedzofe Training School was built in 1880 by German missionaries. It is the home of the oldest EP Church in the Avatime Traditional Area that was built in 1889 by the Germans.
It is at an altitude of above sea level.
See also
*Amedzofe (history)
In Ewe oral history, Amedzofe (), literally 'origin/home of humanity', is one of the names for Ketu. Ketu, in present-day Benin, was a central place in the history of the Gbe peoples. The Gbe peoples originally were closer to the Yoruba Oyo ...
for ''Amedzofe'' in Ewe oral history.
References
External links
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