Lake Hashenge (also ጻዕዳ ባሕሪ Lake Hashange, Lake Hashengi) is a lake in the southern Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Located in the Ethiopian highlands at an elevation of 2409 meters, it has no outlet. According to the Statistical Abstract of Ethiopia for 1967/68, Lake Hashenge is five kilometers long and four wide, with a surface area of 20 square kilometers.
The British explorer Henry Salt, who notes that the Tigrinya name of the lake is Tsada Bahri ("White Sea") from the number of birds which cover its surface, records a local tradition that a large city once stood on the site of Hashenge, but "it was destroyed, in his displeasure, by the immediate hand of God."[1] The legend is vivid up to today.
^Salt, A voyage to Abyssinia (Philadelphia and Boston, 1816), pp. 216f
Another notable battle that took place on the shores of this lake was the Battle of LakeAshenge on 9 October 1909, when Dejazmach Abate Bwalu defeated the...
escorting the captured animals could reach the Portuguese encampment at LakeAshenge. The location of this battle is not known. Whiteway has argued that this...
a list of lakes of Ethiopia, located completely or partially within the country's borders. Lake Chelelektu Lake Gargori Lake Laitali Lakes portal Rift...
this threat, helping him to defeat Dejazmach Abraha in the Battle of LakeAshenge on 9 October. However, once Iyasu was secure as Emperor the following...
The Battle of Wofla was fought on August 28, 1542 near LakeAshenge in Wofla (Ofla) between the Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama and the forces of Imam...
June. The Amhara region is home to 6 lakes: Lake Tana, Lake Hayq, Lake Hardibo, LakeAshenge, Lake zengena and Lake Tirba. According to the Ethiopian government...
Angot and Tigray provinces was the Sabalete river located northeast of LakeAshenge. Under the reign of Degna Djan, during the 10th century, the empire kept...
River. Other lakes that expanded include LakeAshenge and Lake Hayq also in Ethiopia, Lake Bogoria, Lake Naivasha and Lake Nakuru/Lake Elmenteita all...
is surrounded by Ofla woreda. Within the boundaries of this woreda is LakeAshenge, where Christopher da Gama was defeated in the Battle of Wofla in 1543...
the Croce di Guerra for the gallantry demonstrated in the battle of LakeAshenge. In April 1941 he was sent to North Africa where he remained until Spring...
split, one branch taking travellers to Debre Tabor and the other to the LakeAshenge region. The British explorer Charles Beke passed through this town (which...
composed of Asti residents, ran a special donkey palio on the banks of LakeAshenge in Ethiopia. The events of the day were recorded in the Asti daily paper...
basin of the Afar Triangle. The streams near Korem do not reach the ocean. Lake Hashenge is located six kilometers to the north of Korem. The town of Korem...
Italo-Ethiopian War First Battle of Tembien Second Battle of Tembien Battle of LakeAshenge World War II Battle of the Western Alps Greco-Italian War Axis invasion...
Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) during the 1930s. It was named after LakeAshenge in Ethiopia. The Adua-class submarines were essentially repeats of the...
Tigray was densely populated since ancient times; research in Lake sediments of Ashenge show that ecological change started with first dense settlements...
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