Ankober (Amharic: አንኮበር), formerly known as Ankobar,[1] is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, it's perched on the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands at an elevation of about 2,465 meters (8,100 ft). It is 40 kilometers (25 mi) to the east of Debre Birhan and about 90 miles (140 km) northeast of Addis Ababa.
Ankober was formerly the capital of the Ethiopian kingdom of Shewa founded by Yekuno Amlak in the thirteenth century.[2] Buildings that survive from the Shewa period include the Kidus Mikael Church, built by Sahle Selassie. According to Philip Briggs, all that survives of Menelik's palace, which he had built on the site of his father's palace, is "one long stone-and-mortar wall measuring some 1.5m high." Briggs comments that it is "difficult to say why this one wall should have survived virtually intact when the rest of the palace crumbled into virtual oblivion."[3] Ankober is also known as where the endemic Ankober serin was first observed by ornithologists in 1979.
^EB (1878).
^Ankobar. Encyclopedia Aethiopica. Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
^Philip Briggs, Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 3rd edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2002), p. 315.
Ankober (Amharic: አንኮበር), formerly known as Ankobar, is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, it's perched...
The Ankober serin (Crithagra ankoberensis) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is a small brown seedeater, about 12 centimeters or 5...
on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass. Born in Ankober, in Shewa Province, to ethnic Amhara parents Feleketch Yamatawork and Tekle...
Addis Ababa is located at its center. The towns of Debre Berhan, Antsokia, Ankober, Entoto and, after Shewa became a province of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa have...
captured and put under house arrest at the old Shewan royal palace at Ankober. Before 1889, Mengesha Yohannes was considered the Emperor's nephew, but...
size in Africa. It was an early capital of Ethiopia and afterwards, with Ankober and Angolalla, was one of the capitals of the kingdom of Shewa. Today,...
ivory the Negus had not only in his palaces in Doqaqit, Har Ambit and Ankober, but also hidden in mountain caves. "All in all," concludes Abir, "Showa...
had at least five other half sisters. Darge was born and brought up in Ankober, and just like his half brothers received ecclesiastical education in his...
Carlo Conti Rossini initially believed that it was located in modern Ankober, but discarded that theory based on chronological and linguistic grounds...
In 1839 the European missionary Charles Isenberg toured Shewa's capital Ankober and reported that there were Jews around the capital of Shewa and that...
Yekuno Amlak's friendly relations with the Emirs of Harar, he founded Ankober, an alternative capital near their principality. Recorded history affords...
where Emperor Menelik II resided and built his palace, when he came from Ankober and founded Addis Ababa. It is considered a sacred mountain and has many...
arrived in Tadjoura, with their errands being to open up the roads between Ankober and Tadjoura, to enter into communication with King Menelik of Shewa by...
Ras Makonnen Wolde Mikael Wolde Melekot was born in Derefo Maryam near Ankober, in what was then in the province of Menz to his mother Woizero Tenagnework...
audience with Empress Taitu and suggested that she take the Emperor to Ankober as a change of scene that might be beneficial for his health. Taitu had...
the Ethiopians withdrew to nearby areas to regroup; Abebe Aregai went to Ankober, Balcha Safo to Gurage, Zewdu Asfaw to Mulo, Blatta Takale Wolde Hawariat...
soldiers deserted him for the returning prince. Abeto Menelik entered Ankober and proclaimed himself Negus. While Negus Menelik reclaimed his ancestral...
Jimma, until he was captured 11 September 1897, and was first sent to Ankober, then to Addis Ababa. Kaffa was then held as a fief by Wolde Giyogis until...
fighting, devoting his energies to consolidating his kingdom and founding Ankober. This was a practice that his successors followed to the end of the kingdom...
return to the village, Ethiopia (Near Ankober), oil on canvas view 61 × 101.5 cm. (24 × 40 in.) Scene: Ankober, Ethiopia. 1980 The Market, Arusha, East...
Orthodox. By 1913, provincial schools were expanded to Harar, Dessie and Ankober. The opposition decreased by 1920s and subsequently Emperor Haile Selassie...
of the district of Tegulet and came close to capturing the capital of Ankober. Only the loyalty of some of the other Oromo chiefs and the Shewan supply...
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