Chilga (Amharic: ጭልጋ č̣ilgā) also Chelga, Ch'ilga is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It is named after its chief town Chilga (also known as Ayikel), an important stopping point on the historic Gondar-Sudan trade route. Part of the Maekelawi Gondar Zone, Chilga is bordered on the south by Takusa, on the west by Metemma, on the north by Tach Armachiho, on the northeast by Lay Armachiho, and on the east by Dembiya. Other towns in Chilga include Seraba and Wohni.
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Chilga (Amharic: ጭልጋ č̣ilgā) also Chelga, Ch'ilga is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It is named after its chief town Chilga (also known as Ayikel)...
Another species, A. giganteum, was discovered in the Ethiopian highlands of Chilga in 2003. The fossil teeth, far larger than those of A. zitteli, date to...
Chilgatherium ('Chilga beast' after the locality in which it was found) is the earliest and most primitive representative of the family Deinotheriidae...
elderly fraction of the Qemant people in northern Ethiopia, mainly in the Chilga woreda in Semien Gondar Zone between Gondar and Metemma. The language belongs...
Ayikel (Amharic: አይከል), also known as Chilga is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and...
area traditionally called Qwara, along an axis stretching from Ayikel in Chilga woreda to Kirakir and north to Lake Tana in the woredas of Lay Armachiho...
the late Oligocene. Its fossil remains have been found in the district of Chilga in Ethiopia (hence the name). This indicates that, like other proboscideans...
Ethiopia, seized Dembea, burned the Mahbere Selassie monastery and advanced on Chilga. King Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam led a successful counteroffensive as far...
LiveScience. Todd, Lawrence; Glantz, Michelle; Kappelman, John (2 January 2015). "Chilga Kernet: an Acheulean landscape on Ethiopia's western plateau". Antiquity...
of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in September 2018. Tamagne Beyene was born Chilga, a small town in Gondar. At his young age, he established a Children's Musical...
Rasmussen, D.T. 2004. New large−bodied mammals from the late Oligocene site of Chilga, Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (3): 365–392.[1]. Rose 2006...
and actress. Of Ethiopian Jewish descent, Esti Mamo was born in 1983 in Chilga, in northwestern Ethiopia. She is a member of the Beta Israel community...
fair-weather road in poor repair, led to Gallabat and had a garrison at Chilga. There were rough tracks to the west of Lake Tana which met at Gorgora and...
D Tab (2004). "New large-bodied mammals from the Late Oligocene site of Chilga, Ethiopia" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (3). OCLC 716778291...
at Fayum in Egypt, while the other taxa indicate an older age than the Chilga Formation of Ethiopia. This led Zalmout's team to assign an age of 28 or...
Zone, Lay Armachiho is bordered on the south by Dembiya, on the west by Chilga, on the north by Tach Armachiho, on the east by Wegera, and on the southeast...
Machakel Shebel Berenta Sinan North Gondar Zone Addi Arkay Alefa Beyeda Chilga Dabat Debarq Dembiya Gondar Town Gondar Zuria Jan Amora Lay Armachiho Metemma...
on the west by Qwara, on the northwest by the Metemma, on the north by Chilga, on the northeast by Dembiya, and on the east by Lake Tana. Towns in Takusa...
II and successor of Adlan I, however, outraged by the shelter given in Chilga to his father by the Ethiopians, severed these ties, sending as an insult...
Gondar Zone, Tach Armachiho is bordered on the south by Lay Armachiho and Chilga, on the southwest by Metemma, on the west by Mirab Armachiho, on the north...
Chwihui of Geumgwan Gaya Hangul 취희왕 or 질가왕 Hanja 吹希王 or 叱嘉王 Revised Romanization Chwihui wang Jilga wang McCune–Reischauer Ch'wihŭi wang Chilga wang...
Rasmussen, D. T., 2004 New large-bodied mammals from the late Oligocene site of Chilga, Ethiopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Vol. 49, no.3, pp. 365–392 Huttunen...
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