Qwara Province information

Qwara (Amharic: ቋራ), also spelled Quara, was a province in now Amhara region, Ethiopia, located between Lake Tana and the frontier inside present-day...

Qwara may refer to: Qwara Province in Ethiopia Qwara language Qwara (woreda), a district in the approximate location as the province This disambiguation...

born in Qwara province. She was a daughter of Dejazmach Manbare of Dembiya by his wife, Woizero Yenkoy. Mentewab married Emperor Bakaffa in Qwara on 6 September...

Kaffa (Amharic: ከፋ) was a province on the southwestern side of Ethiopia; its capital city was Bonga. Kaffa is bordered on the west by Sudan, on the northwest...

for the power wielded for so long by Mentewab and her relatives from Qwara Province. When Iyoas assumed the throne upon his father's sudden death, the aristocrats...

horseman in Abyssinia. Kassa Hailu was born in Qwara west of Gondar, his father was an Amhara nobleman of the Qwara district named Hailegiorgis Woldegiorgis...

By 1700, Gojjam's western neighbors were Agawmeder in the southwest and Qwara in the northwest. Agawmeder, never an organized political entity, was gradually...

Selale, also known as Grarya, a former province of Abyssinia. Modern Shewa includes the historical Endagabatan province. Shewa first appears in the historical...

Agawmeder Begemder Dawaro Dembiya Enderta Fatagar Hadiya Ifat Lasta Menz Qwara Semien Tembien Tigray Tselemt Tsegede[citation needed] Wag Wegera Ethiopia...

is the case with Judeo-Tunisian Arabic) or with Ge'ez (as with Kayla and Qwara), many- including Haketia and several forms of Judeo-Arabic- have made frequent...

led to Mentewab summoning her relatives with their armed supporters from Qwara to Gondar to support her. Wubit responded by summoning her own Oromo relatives...

southeastern Somalia. It was one of the biggest sultanates ever founded in the province, including the Sanaag region and sections of the country's northeastern...

somewhere five to six days away from Medri Bahri, possibly Taka (a historical province named after Jebel Taka near modern Kassala). During the Ethiopian-Adal...

his grandmother. Empress Mentewab gathered her relatives from her native Qwara and their forces flooded into Gondar to support her claims. When news of...

century BCE on the island of Elephantine. Later the Persians made Judah a province and permitted Jewish exiles to return and rebuild the Temple. Aramaic became...

frequent trips in disguise, and fell ill while visiting her home province of Qwara. He was put to bed in her father's house and she had nursed him during...

also known as Enda Gabtan, Anda Gabtan, or Endagabton was a historical province of Ethiopia. Located north west of the old Fatagar region, bounded by Mugar...

vassal and later a province due its subjugation by Emperor Amda Seyon I in the early 14th century. The earliest mention of this province comes from the Royal...

Ganz (Amharic: ገንዝ), also known as Ganazo or Ganzo was a province surrounding what is now the capital region and city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Originally...

Wollo group led by Wubit. In 1767, Ras Mikael Sehul, a regent in Tigray Province, seized Gondar and murdered the child Iyoas I in 1769, who was emperor...

federal government and its transformation into a centrally-administered province, Afar leaders met again in Assab in 1963 and supported the creation of...

Wag Kingdom of Beta Israel Dembiya Gafat Gojjam Waldebba Semien Wegera Qwara Tsegede Wolqayt Kingdom of Damot Dawro Enarya Janjero Kaffa Sheka Wolayta...

Qwara, in 1818. His father was a small local chief, and his relative (possibly uncle) Dejazmach Kinfu was governor of the provinces of Dembiya, Qwara...

(Friday fast), and the very holy Sanbat (Sabbath). The Beta Israel once spoke Qwara and Kayla, both of which are Agaw languages. Now, they speak Tigrinya and...