Nefas Mewcha is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 11°44′N38°28′E / 11.733°N 38.467°E / 11.733; 38.467 and an elevation of 3150 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Lay Gayint woreda.
Nefas Mewcha lies on the main Debre Tabor - Weldiya highway (also known as the Chinese road), providing it with an all-year link to the Zonal capital of Weldiya.[1]
^Hans Spiess, "Field Trip Report to South Gonder, North Welo and Oromiya Zones of Region 3 (Amhara) and the Southern Zone of Region 1 (Tigray)" Archived 2005-01-21 at the Wayback Machine UNDP-EUE Report (accessed 15 December 2009)
NefasMewcha is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 11°44′N 38°28′E...
Terara) is a mountain and shield volcano located near the cities of NefasMewcha and Debre Tabor, in the northern Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is the...
and on the east by the Semien Wollo Zone. The administrative center is NefasMewcha; other towns in Lay Guyint include Gobgob and Sali. The altitude of this...
victory, fell back into Begemder, first to Filakit Gereger, then to NefasMewcha "in the farthest limits of his province" (in Bruce's words) where the...
Mekelle air raid 27–29 October 1989 Mekelle, Tigray 31 NefasMewcha air raid 13 January 1990 NefasMewcha, Gondar 23 Isitayoh air raid 28 January 1990 Isitayoh...
detention sites in NefasMewcha and Were-Ilu without court oversight. On June 11, 2022, AAA issued an update that detainees in NefasMewcha staged a hunger...
same meaning. Shime is located in modern day South Gondar Zone, near NefasMewcha then part of Begemder. Atnatewos is also spelled in different sources...
Lasta and later Begemeder. He was on the losing side in the Battle of NefasMewcha (1769), but one of the victorious generals in the Three battles of Sarbakusa...
source in this woreda. Filakit Gereger lies on the main Debre Tabor - NefasMewcha highway (also known as the Chinese road), and except for those of the...
dry-weather road 53 kilometers long connects Wegeda to the main Debre Tabor - NefasMewcha all-weather highway (also known as the Chinese Road). Local officials...
responsible for mass killings and gang rapes of civilians. In the town of NefasMewcha alone 74 women had reported that they had been raped by TDF fighters...
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