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...
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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...
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(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...
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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";...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fentale • Mount Amba Ferit • Mount Fota • Mount Furi Gada Ale • Mount Gara Muleta • Mount Gardolla • Mount Garochan • Mount Gaysay • Amba Geshen • Mount Gugu...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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one major noble, Zasillus, immediately marched to the royal prison of Amba Geshen, freed Na'od, and proclaimed him Emperor. Another noble Tekle Kristos...
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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...
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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...
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began the tradition of confining rival heirs to the Imperial throne at Amba Geshen, although this is disputed. Marrassini, Paolo. "Yəmrəḥannä Krəstos",...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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