Amba Geshen is the name of a mountain in northern Ethiopia. It is in Ambassel, South Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, northwest of Dessie, at a latitude...

Other noted Ambas include Amba Aradam and Amba Alagi, sites of famous battles during the first and second Italo-Ethiopian Wars. Amba Geshen: A historic...

of Ambassel. Rivers include the Waha Titu. Notable landmarks include Amba Geshen, where the medieval Emperors of Ethiopia would confine their male relatives...

Almeida remarks that the descendants of Takla Maryam had been taken from Amba Geshen by Emperor Zara Yaqob and "exiled to hot lands where there are many diseases";...

(Amharic: ጃንጥራር) was a title of the Ethiopian Empire given to the ruler of Amba Geshen. Jantirar is borne historically by the head of the family holding the...

or Tekle Maryam, two monasteries near the former imperial cemetery on Amba Geshen. An inscription of 359 found at Tixter, in the neighbourhood of Sétif...

Amara, rather than Abora. Mount Amara is a real mountain, today called Amba Geshen, located in the Amhara Region of modern Ethiopia, formerly known as the...

Wallis Budge adds the tradition that Jin Asgad initiated the use of Amba Geshen as a royal prison for troublesome relatives of the Emperor, when he was...

to his ascension as Emperor of Ethiopia), was tasked with protecting Amba Geshen. One of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the...

Imperial family to a mountaintop, as they had once been confined at Amba Geshen. Fasilides died at Azezo in 1667, 8 kilometres (5 miles) south of Gondar...

the country undivided. The potential royal rivals were incarcerated at Amba Geshen until the site was destroyed in 1540 during the Ethiopian-Adal war; then...

is not known. Whiteway has argued that this place is identical with Amba Geshen, located far to the south of the Portuguese camp. More recently, however...

of the king; this may be an echo of the later capture and sack of Amba Geshen by Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, alias Ahmad Gragn. However, James Bruce presented...

security of Gojjam. Only their failure to capture the royal compound at Amba Geshen slowed the Muslims down. In April 1533, Ahmad once again assembled his...

Fentale • Mount Amba Ferit • Mount Fota • Mount Furi Gada Ale • Mount Gara Muleta • Mount Gardolla • Mount Garochan • Mount Gaysay • Amba Geshen • Mount Gugu...

the people to convert to Islam. He then laid sieged to the fortress of Amba Geshen, around the same time the Adalites captured the Emperor's niece whom...

for heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia, like the better-known Wehni and Amba Geshen. The exterior walls of the church were built of alternating courses of...

Emperor Dawit, his older brother Tewodros ordered Zara Yaqob confined on Amba Geshen (around 1414). Despite this, Zara Yaqob's supporters kept him a perennial...

Latitude (DMS): 42° 34' 60 S Longitude (DMS): 146° 19' 60 E. Novels portal Amba Geshen Orientalism James Ridley Wehni Keymer 2009. Wharton & Mayersen 1984,...

The royal seat in question could have been located at the mountain of Amba Geshen His death however, like that of many other Solomonic kings, although...

to his ascension as Emperor of Ethiopia), was tasked with protecting Amba Geshen. Believers contend that the monastic life is the highest stage of Christian...

John of the Indies, a male relative of Lebna Dengel who escaped from Amba Geshen is described as her son, according to the translator but not the original...

Robēl is mentioned in Ethiopian sources as the Governor of Dawaro and Amba Geshen while in Muslim sources he is simply referred to as a Patrician from...

Cross has been brought to Ethiopia from Egypt. It is said to be kept at Amba Geshen, which itself has a cross-shaped plan.[citation needed] According to...

one major noble, Zasillus, immediately marched to the royal prison of Amba Geshen, freed Na'od, and proclaimed him Emperor. Another noble Tekle Kristos...

minor commander and is mentioned to have taken part in a failed siege of Amba Geshen under Garad Matan during 1531. Soon afterwards he was sent along with...

began the tradition of confining rival heirs to the Imperial throne at Amba Geshen, although this is disputed. Marrassini, Paolo. "Yəmrəḥannä Krəstos",...

the three such mountains, or amba, said to have been used for that purpose, the other two being Debre Damo and Amba Geshen. From some undetermined time...

Cross was brought by Emperor Zara Yaqob with whom Jesus crucified to "Gishen Amba" and buried under the church of God. The church is known for receiving mass...