MAGDALA, Village, Ethiopia

mägˈdälä, măgˈdələ, former name of Amba Mariamämˈbə märˈēəm, village, Amhara region, central Ethiopia. Emperor Tewodros II (Theodore II) in the mid-19th cent. used Magdala as the base of operations for his conquest of the surrounding Oromo territory. In 1867 he made it his capital and imprisoned several British diplomats there. In 1868 a British military expedition under Sir Robert Napier rescued the prisoners, destroyed Magdala, and prompted Tewodros's suicide. For his exploits Napier was later named Baron Napier of Magdala.

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The Transformation of East Africa: Studies in Political Anthropology
Book by Stanley Diamond, Fred G. Burke; Basic Books, 1966
Subjects: Africa, East
...terror and destroyed village after village, burning...in his stronghold at Magdala, Theodoros shot himself...stage for unification of Ethiopia, which at that time...to set up a colony in Ethiopia. Certainly the Ethiopian...prisoners. Subsequently Ethiopia was once more rescued...
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A History of the Church in Africa
Book by Bengt Sundkler, Christopher Steed; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Africa--Church History, Christianity--Africa
...period 881 , 882 in Ethiopia twentieth century 697...Hermannsburg mission, in Ethiopia twentieth century 697...Norwegian Lutherans in Ethiopia twentieth century 697...community South Africa 390 1 Magdala, battle 1868 162 Maghreb...Portrait of an African Village White 980 1 Mahamba...
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Atlas of the Bible
Book by L. H. Grollenberg, Joyce M. H. Reid, H. H. Rowley; Nelson, 1956
Subjects: Bible--Antiquities, Bible--Geography--Maps, Jews--History--To 70 A.D
...Baalbek; Map 16. Cush, Biblical n. of ETHIOPIA, q.v. Cuth a , see CUTHAH. Cuthah...57 ; prob. the ruins near the mod. village of Daburiyeh at the foot of Mt Tabor...the parallel passage of Mt 15:39, and Magdala in the Textus Receptus. Dalmatia, district...


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journal articles on: Magdala Village Ethiopia  - 3 results

 
 
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Love of Mother, Glory of Crown
Journal article by Robert Cohen; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 86, 2010
Subjects: Adoption, Ethiopia, Human trafficking, Nongovernmental organizations--NGOs
...versus Some Other Team. Ethiopia, like the rest of the...in an extra month (Ethiopia: Thirteen Months of...cloistered New England village to assume other bonds...from the old capital Magdala. Took it out by the...silver from the Bank of Ethiopia. Illuminated manuscripts...
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The Emergence of Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction
Journal article by Asafa Jalata; Social Justice, Vol. 22, 1995
Subjects: Ethiopia--Social aspects, Oromo Liberation Front (Ethiopia)--Social aspects
...Paris Conference on Peace in Ethiopia" (March 13, 1993). (45...REFERENCES Abbay, Alem 1992 "Ethiopia: Yearning for Peace." African...The Emperor Theodorus and the Magdala Campaign, 1867-1868. Oxford...Identity, and Nationalism in Ethiopia, Part Two." The Oromo Commentary...
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Horn of Africa
Journal article by T. A. Barringer; Africa, 1998
Subjects: Africa--Bibliography
...Caste and class in North-West Ethiopia: the Beta Israel (Falasha...Phillipson, D.W., Ancient Ethiopia: Aksum: its antecedents and...in mid-eighteenth century Ethiopia. in Page, M.E. and others...Curtin, P.D., The March to Magdala. in Disease and empire: the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Magdala Village Ethiopia  - 1 result

 
 
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Magdala , Village, Ethiopia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAGDALA , village, Ethiopia mag dala, mag d l , former name of...village, Amhara region, central Ethiopia. Emperor Tewodros II (Theodore II) in the mid-19th cent. used Magdala as the base of operations for his...


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