GONDAR

or Gonderboth: gŏnˈdər, town (1994 pop. 112,249), capital of Amhara region, NW Ethiopia, at an altitude of c.7,300 ft (2,225 m). It is a regional trade center and a tourist destination. Once Ethiopia's largest city and a center of religion and art, Gondar served as the capital of Ethiopia from c.1635 to 1867. In the 19th cent. the city declined, and in 1887 it was sacked by Sudanese Mahdists (see Mahdi). The city had a large concentration of Falashas (Ethiopian Jews), but most have emigrated to Israel. Gondar is noted for its architectural ruins. It has a university medical school.

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books on: Gondar  - 142 results

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1.
The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Migration Journey to Israel 1977-1985
Book by Gadi Benezer; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Ethiopia--Emigration And Immigration, Immigrants--Israel--Social Conditions--20th Century, Israel--Emigration And Immigration, Jews, Ethiopian--Israel--History, Jews, Ethiopian--Israel--Social Conditions--20th Century, Jews--Ethiopia--History, Jews--Ethiopia--Social Life And Customs, Jews--Migrations, Social Integration--Israel
...Tigray Village - 11 5w 24m 1982 Boarding 1987 18 5 Hana F Gondar Village 11 17 1w 1.5m 1984 Community 1988 21 4 Isaiah M Gondar Village 8 15 1w 1w 1984 Boarding 1987 18 3 Jonathan M Gondar Village 13 17 4w 18m 1984 Community 1988 22 4 Katchil F...
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The Church in Africa: 1450-1950
Book by Adrian Hastings; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Africa--Church History, Christianity And Culture, Christianity--Africa, Church And State--Africa, Missions--Africa--History
...since. The establishment of a capital at Gondar may have been inspired by the building...Ethiopian monarchy and of Ethiopia itself. Gondar had little to offer beyond its palaces...African medieval empires. Economically Gondar generated nothing. It merely isolated...
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Ethiopia: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture
Book by George A. Lipsky, Wendell Blanchard, Abraham M. Hirsch, Bela C. Maday; HRAF Press, 1962
Subjects: Ethiopia
...forebear of the present emperor; Ras Ali of Gondar Begemder ; Ras Wube of Tegre; and Ras...general civil war. Finally, the rulers of Gondar and Gojam were killed and two contenders...father who was a chief in Kiwara, west of Gondar, and claimed descent from the Queen of...
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Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia, 1600-1700
Book by Glenn J. Ames, Ronald S. Love; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Asia--Civilization--17th Century, Asia--Description And Travel, Asia--Relations--France, France--Relations--Asia, French--Asia--History--17th Century, Travelers--Asia--History--17th Century, Travelers--France--History--17th Century
...possibility of a French delegation to be sent to Gondar. De Maillet was to continue to defray...interestingly, he objected to the use of Gondar as capital of Ethiopia. The last time...Aksum was considered the capital, and Gondar was merely a camp. The French Court also...
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Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology
Book by Graham Connah; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Africa--Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)--Africa
...the capital was eventually fixed at Gondar to the north of the lake and remained...some of the short-lived capitals and at Gondar itself. Functioning as palaces, these...modern times it had collapsed. It was at Gondar that such buildings became most common...
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journal articles on: Gondar  - 29 results

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Rethinking Property and Society in Gondärine Ethiopia
Journal article by Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne; African Studies Review, Vol. 52, 2009
Subjects: Society
...Ethiopia, especially the province of Gondar in the northwest (see Mengistie 2004...traditions of northern Ethiopia, especially Gondar, based on a close analysis of the charter...Amharicspeaking provinces of Gojjam and Gondar, the spatial unit of analysis here is...
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Mining a Mother Lode: Early European Travel Literature and the History of Precious Metalworking in Highland Ethiopia
Journal article by Raymond Silverman, Neal Sobania; History In Africa, Vol. 31, 2004
...Eduard Ruppell, for instance, who visited Gondar in the early 1830s, was impressed with...practiced by only one man in Adwa and a few in Gondar.41 Particularly popular, and often...craftsmen in large towns, especially Adwa and Gondar.55 It seems that most of the rulers...
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"Transborder" Exchanges of People, Things, and Representations: Revisiting the Conflict between Mahdist Sudan and Christian Ethiopia, 1885-1889*
Journal article by Iris Seri-Hersch; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2010
Subjects: Colonies & territories, Military history, Religion
...towns of Gedaref, Gallabat (Sudan) and Gondar (Ethiopia) constituted a zone of intense...exported to Ethiopia through Metemma and Gondar.27 Turco-Egyptian governors were not...relations between the two states.32 Gondar, the imperial capital of Ethiopia from...
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Ethiopian Painting of King Takla Haymanot's War with the Dervishes
Journal article by Richard Pankhurst; African Arts, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: African painting--History, Textile painting--History
...enemy of part of the Ethiopian capital, Gondar. Authorship and Date of Composition Honoring...depicts the fight with the invaders and Gondar in flames. The work is thus represents...within sight of the Ethiopian capital Gondar, where one of the citys famous castles...
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Contemporary Women Artists in Ethiopia
Journal article by Makda Teklemichael; African Arts, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: African art--Criticism and interpretation, African art--Exhibitions, Art, African--Criticism and interpretation, Art, African--Exhibitions, Ethiopian culture--Portrayals, Women artists--Criticism and interpretation, Women artists--Exhibitions
...paintings and illuminated manuscripts in Gondar and Gojam (Chojnacki 1999:21). In...in 1967. As a teenager, she moved to Gondar, where she discovered her passion for...Wolata-Yohannes Sebehatu who resides in Gondar, (15) she cannot help but be inspired...
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The Second Zion - Medieval Capital of Gondar
Magazine article by William S. Connery; World and I, Vol. 16, August 2001
Subjects: Debre Birhan Selasie Church--Design and construction, Ethiopia--History, Ethiopian history, Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia--Works, Iyasu, Emperor of Ethiopia--Works, Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia--Works
...The Second Zion - Medieval Capital of Gondar. by William S. Connery About fifty...entourage from Lake Tana to the village of Gondar, which became Ethiopias capital for the next 250 years. Medieval Gondar became known as a city of castles and...
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Ethiopia: Africa's Holy Land; the Only Country in Africa That Was Never Colonised, the First in Africa to Adopt the Christian Faith, and Containing More World Heritage Sites Than Any Other, Ethiopia Has One of the Richest Historical Heritages on the Continent. Stephen Williams Was a Recent Visitor and Provides This Special Report for New African
Magazine article by Stephen Williams; New African, January 2007
Subjects: Airlines--Reports, Ethiopian Airlines--Reports, Historic sites--Reports
...empire of Aksum, the medieval castles of Gondar, and much else besides--but it was...outside the modern town, on the road to Gondar. Western archaeologists, who had previously...the palace is probably pre-Christian. Gondar was our third and final stop on Ethiopias...
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Aid for Ethiopian Relief Reaches over $300 Million, Undro Reports
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 22, January 1985
Subjects: Emergency mass feeding--Ethiopia, Ethiopia--Famines, Food relief--Ethiopia, United Nations. Office of United Nations Disaster Relief Co-Ordinator--Reports
...and Eritrea in the north, and all of northern Shewa, eastern Gondar, Hararghe and Sidamo. In all, 12 of Ethiopias 14 administrative...The main surplus areas of Gojjam, Shewa, Arsi, Western Gondar, eastern Welega and northern Bale would have sharply reduced...
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Sight for Sore Eyes
Magazine article by James A. Zingeser; Natural History, Vol. 113, December 2004
Subjects: Blindness, Disease control, Infectious diseases, Public health, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Health Organization
...made sociological surveys in Ghana in 1999 and in the South Gondar zone of northern Ethiopia in 2001. A related cultural concern...essential tools of the overall strategy. In 2002, in the South Gondar Zone of Ethiopia, the Amhara Health Bureau trained nineteen...
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Food-Security Worries Surface Again
Magazine article; African Business, June 1994
Subjects: Agricultural policy, Agricultural productivity--Ethiopia, Agriculture, Ethiopia, Food supply--Ethiopia
...Wollo, East Hararghe, West Hararghe, Tigray, Northeastern Gondar, North Omo and South Omo. The effects of the rain failure...production located in parts of North Wollo, Southern Tigray, Gondar and South Omo (see the accompanying maps). SCF has recently...
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newspaper articles on: Gondar  - 14 results

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My MERCY Mission to Ethiopia
Newspaper article by Matthew Benns; The Mirror (London, England), January 3, 1998
Subjects: International Committee of the Red Cross
...Matthew Benns CLASS IS FUN: Pupils in Gondar Helen Baxendale, TV detective Cordelia...hate him. Today we have to fly up to Gondar to see how the Red Cross is helping with...good way to meet people. We fly over the Gondar region and it is beautiful. Lush and...
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Ethiopia ...and Not a Red Nose in Sight; Maureen Lipman Discovers That You Don't Have to Be on a Comic Relief Mission to Enjoy This Colourful, Resurgent Slice of Africa, REVIEW
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 8, 2005
...internal flight to the ancient city of Gondar, 7,000ft up in the mountains, Fritz...suddenly, it feels like Africa. Once in Gondar we visited two school libraries, stocked...high stone walls and rounded towers, the Gondar market galvanised Fritz into photographic...
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Football: Barnes Is Stripped for Action; Former Toon Star in African Kit Swap
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), April 24, 2008
Subjects: Barnes, John
...after primary schoolchildren across the North East and Ethiopias Gondar region put pen to paper to combine their love of the beautiful...needed football strips. The initiative also hopes to provide the Gondar region, where few children have proper sport facilities, with...
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Hostages in Ethiopia? We've Been There Before
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 7, 2007
...the 1770s, when the Scottish explorer James Bruce, in search of the source of the Nile, spent two years in its capital, Gondar. But British interest in Ethiopia reached its peak a century later, when a bizarre diplomatic incident provoked a bloody war...
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Value Added; in a New Series, Cathy Strongman Visits the Capital's Rising Architects and the Amazing London Homes They Are Creating
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 25, 2009
Subjects: Architects
...burdhaward.com) ... A pounds sterling54,000 extension above a Stoke Newington garden Morley Von Sternberg Above: at Gondar Gardens, in Kilburn, NW6, the couple added a daring brick-and-glass extension to a traditional terrace house Left: in...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gondar  - 5 results

 
 
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Gondar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GONDAR or Gonder both: gon d r, town (1994 pop...city and a center of religion and art, Gondar served as the capital of Ethiopia from c...but most have emigrated to Israel. Gondar is noted for its architectural ruins. It...
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Ethiopia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...known as Beta Israel or Falashas , lived north of Lake Tana in Gondar. In the midst of famine and political instability, 10,000...For the next two centuries the Ethiopian kingdom, centered at Gondar near Lake Tana, was beset by ruinous civil wars among princes...
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Falashas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Israeli rabbinate recognized the Falashas legally as Jews. During the Ethiopian civil war, about 10,000 Falashas from the Gondar region of Ethiopia were airlifted (Sept., 1984 Mar., 1985) to Israel. A second airlift of more than 14,000 occurred...
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Tana , Lake, Ethiopia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TANA , lake, Ethiopia ta na or Tsana tsa na, largest lake of Ethiopia, c.1,400 sq mi (3,630 sq km), S of Gondar. It is fed by more than 60 streams, one of which is regarded as the source of the Blue Nile. The islands in the lake are...
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Bruce, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Asia Minor. In 1768 he traveled down the Red Sea as far as the straits of Bab el Mandeb. From Massawa he struck inland for Gondar, then the capital of Ethiopia. He rediscovered (1770) the source of the Blue Nile, which he followed (1771) to its confluence...


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