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Senafe Subregion
Senafe subregion is a Subregions of Eritrea, subregion of the Debub Region, Debub Regions of Eritrea, region (Zoba Debub) in southern Eritrea. Its capital is Senafe and high points include Emba Soira. Overview Lying on the edge of the Ethiopian Highlands, the district is primarily inhabited by the Tigrinya people, Tigrinya and the Saho people, Saho peoples. Senafe is known for the ruins of Metera (also known as ''Balaw Kalaw'') and the monolithic church of Enda-Tsadkan. ReferencesAwate.com: Martyr Statistics Southern region (Eritrea) Subregions of Eritrea {{eritrea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subregions Of Eritrea
The six Regions of Eritrea, regions of Eritrea are divided into administrative subregions (). Anseba region * Adi Tekelezan subregion, Adi Tekelezan * Asmat subregion, Asmat * Hamelmalo subregion, Hamelmalo * Elabered subregion, Elabered *Geleb subregion, Geleb *Hagaz subregion, Hagaz * Halhal subregion, Halhal * Habero subregion, Habero *Keren subregion, Keren * Kerkebet subregion, Kerkebet *Sela subregion, Sela Central region (Eritrea), Central (Maekel) region *Berikh subregion, Berikh * Ghala Nefhi subregion, Ghala Nefhi * North Eastern subregion, North Eastern * North Western subregion, North western * Serejaka subregion, Serejaka * South Eastern subregion, South Eastern * South Western subregion, South Western Gash-Barka region *Akurdet subregion, Akurdet *Barentu subregion, Barentu *Dghe subregion, Dghe *Forto subregion, Forto *Gogne subregion, Gogne *Goluj subregion, Omhajer *Haykota subregion, Haykota * Logo Anseba subregion, Logo Anseba *Mensura subregion, Mensura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countries Of The World
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Eritrea
The regions of Eritrea are the primary geographical divisions through which Eritrea is administered. Six in total, they include the Maekel Region, Central, Anseba Region, Anseba, Gash-Barka Region, Gash-Barka, Debub Region, Southern, Northern Red Sea Region, Northern Red Sea and Southern Red Sea Region, Southern Red Sea regions. At the time of independence in 1993 Eritrea was arranged into ten Provinces of Eritrea, provinces. These provinces were similar to the nine provinces operating during the colonial period. In 1996, these were consolidated into six regions (''zobas''). Gash-Barka Region is the largest and sparsely populated region and is called the "bread-basket". The People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ (originally Eritrean People's Liberation Front) rules the country and its regions as a Single-party state, single-party totalitarian government. The Elections in Eritrea, regional and local elections are conducted on a periodic basis on a restricted framework. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senafe
Senafe (, ) is a market town in southern Eritrea, on the edge of the Eritrean highlands ሶይራ. The name Sanafe driven from ana-feenyemeni words.The surrounding area is inhabited by the Saho people and the Tigrinya people. It's well known for its cultural and religious historical background, as well as for the ruins of Metera (also known as ''Balaw Kalaw''), Qohayto to the south, and Kaskase to the north. The soil in the is derived from volcanic ignimbrite, and Senafe sits on the southeastern edge of a twenty kilometer wide caldera. History An early record of Sanafe is on the Egyptus Novello map, published in 1454. This map shows Sanafe at the edge of Tigray, connected to two routes, one leading west to Axum, the other south to Lake Ashangi. According to James Bruce, the party of Jesuits which included the Catholic patriarch Afonso Mendes and Fr. Jerónimo Lobo, passed through Senafe in 1625, having entered the Horn of Africa by way of Beilul and having crossed the Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eritrea
Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea. The nation has a total area of approximately , and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Hominid remains found in Eritrea have been dated to 1 million years old and anthropological research indicates that the area may contain significant records related to the evolution of humans. The Kingdom of Aksum, covering much of modern-day Eritrea and Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia, was established during the first or second century AD.Henze, Paul B. (2005) ''Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia'', . It adopted Eritrean Orthodox Church, Christianity around the middle of the fourth century. Beginning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emba Soira
Emba Soira (also transliterated Soyra or Golo) is the highest mountain in Eritrea. Rising above sea level, it is part of the Eritrean Highlands, one side of the Great Rift Valley which cuts through Eritrea and joins the Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th .... The mountain is situated in the southeastern part of the Debub (Southern) administrative region in central Eritrea. The people of Emba Soira are of the saho tribe specifically the gaaso clan which include Shum Abdallah Gaysha, hassan Gaysha, Yofiz Gaysha,Sileyan Gaysha and Shum Ahmad Gaysha of the Minifere clan. theirs also the Debri-mela clan and the Gadafur clan. Israeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopian Highlands
The Ethiopian Highlands (also called the Abyssinian Highlands) is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa. It forms the largest continuous area of its elevation in the continent, with little of its surface falling below , while the summits reach heights of up to . It is sometimes called the "Roof of Africa" due to its height and large area. It is the only country in the region with such a high elevated surface. This elevated surface is bisected diagonally by the Great East African Rift System which extends from Syria to Mozambique across the East African Lakes. Most of the Ethiopian Highlands are part of central and northern Ethiopia, and its northernmost portion reaches into Eritrean Highlands, Eritrea. History In the southern parts of the Ethiopian Highlands once was located the Kingdom of Kaffa, a medieval and Early modern period, early modern state, whence the coffee plant was exported to the Arabian Peninsula. The land of the former kingdom is mountainou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigrinya People
The Tigrinya people (, ), also known as the Biher-Tigrinya () or Kebessa, are a Tigrinya-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the highlands of Eritrea, specifically the historical provinces of Hamasien, Akele Guzai and Seraye. History One view believes that the name comes from the word (), meaning "she ascended". The word () "they ascended" describes the ascension of the earliest indigenous people to the mountainous highlands of Eritrea as the plateau's first settlers. The Tigrinya tribe were first mentioned around the 8th to 10th centuries, in which period manuscripts preserving the inscriptions of Cosmas Indicopleustes (fl. 6th century) contain notes on his writings including the mention of a tribe called Tigretes.G.W.B. Huntingford, ''Historical Geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704'' (London: British Academy, 1989), pp. 38f The word Kebessa in the form ''khebsi'', has also been found in Ancient Egyptian inscriptions in reference to the Land of Punt, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saho People
The Saho are a Cushitic peoples, Cushitic ethnic group who are one of the 9 official ethnic groups Eritrea. They speak Saho as a mother tongue. History The Saho were originally a northern extension of the Afar people, Afar who moved along the Gulf of Zula and settled into the eastern foothills of Akele Guzai sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries. The first mention of the Sahos comes from the ''Royal Chronicle'' of Emperor Susenyos I, which notes a "country of the Sahos" existing on the "confines of the Ethiopian kingdom". During the 19th century, the Sahos were described as being cattle herders who controlled all the caravan routes from Tigray province, Tigray to the ports of Massawa and Arkiko, Hirgogo. They did not tolerate being treated unfairly by the Naib of Massawa or the Egyptian appointed governor and regularly refused to pay tribute to the authorities at Massawa. In 1848, the British explorer Walter Plowden described the Sahos as being "the most expert of fleecers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metera
Metera or መጠራ (𐩣𐩷𐩧) is a small town and important archeological site located in the Debub Region of Eritrea. Situated a few kilometers south of Senafe (ሰንዓፈ), it was a major city in the Dʿmt (𐩵𐩲𐩣𐩩) and Aksumite kingdoms. The town has the oldest example of Ge’ez, which is a pre-Aksumite Obelisk, Hawulti (monument). Since Eritrean independence, the National Museum of Eritrea has petitioned the Ethiopian government to return artifacts removed from the site. However, the efforts have thus far been rebuffed. History Matara is the name of both a small village and an important archaeological site in Eritrea. The latter is located some 136 kilometers southeast of the capital Asmara, just past Senafe on the road leading south to the border with the northern Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The archaeological site already has yielded evidence of several levels of habitation, including at least two different major cities, covering more than 1,000 years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monolithic Church
A monolithic church or rock-hewn church is a church made from a single block of stone. Because freestanding rocks of sufficient size are rare, such edifices are usually hewn into the ground or into the side of a hill or mountain. They can be of comparable architectural complexity to constructed buildings. The term ''monolithic church'' is used of churches in various countries, not least the complex of eleven churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia, believed to have been created in the 12th century. Ethiopia The eleven monolithic churches in Lalibela are: * Church of the Redeemer * Saint Marie * Mount Sinai * Golgotha * House of the Cross * House of the Virgins * Saint Gabriel * Abba Matta * Saint Mercurius * Immanuel * Church of St. George (Bete Giyorgis) The most famous of the edifices is the cross-shaped Church of St. George. Tradition credits its construction to the Zagwe dynasty King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, who was a devout Orthodox Tewahedo Christian. The medieval monolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
