Map of the provinces of Ethiopia before 1935. (Derived from Perham, Margery (1969):The Government of Ethiopia)
Semien Province (Amharic: ሰሜን, “North”) was a historical province of northwest Ethiopia. According to Manoel De Almeida Semien was bordered on the north-east and north by Tigray and Tselemt, on the east and south by Abergele, and on the west by Wegera.[1] Alexander Murray include Wag as part of Semien.[2]
^Huntingford, G. W. B. (2017-05-15). Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646: Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with Bahrey's History of the Galla. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-05271-5.
^Murray, Alexander (1808). Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ...: Author of Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773. A. Constable. p. 304.
SemienProvince (Amharic: ሰሜን, “North”) was a historical province of northwest Ethiopia. According to Manoel De Almeida Semien was bordered on the north-east...
Semien is Amharic and Tigrinya for "north", and may refer to: Semien Mountains Semienprovince Kingdom of Semien, a historical political entity of the...
Wube's family originated from the Semien mountains, his father, Haile Maryam Gebre was the governor of the Semienprovince and belonged to the Orthodox Christian...
former province is now split over the woredas of Dogua Tembien and Kola Tembien.[citation needed] It was located east of the SemienProvince and north...
Gojjam, and shortly afterwards he campaigned against the Beta israel in Semienprovince. Menas made no use of his ancestors capitals in Shewa and Fatagar or...
departed from Tigray to conduct a campaign against the Beta Israel in Semienprovince. While on this campaign, Sarsa Dengel received information that the...
Gebre Tasfa better known as Gebre of Semien (Gabriel of Semien) (died May 1815) was the governor of Semien, Tsegede, Welkait and Wogera during the late...
north-east of Gondar on the highway between Gondar and Axum, and is in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region. It has a latitude and longitude of 13°08′N...
During Yohannes I reign, Dejazmach Anestasyos was the governor of SemienProvince with the honorific title of Aggafari. On 15th of July 1682, the ailing...
governorships. From 1916, he was Shum of Wagara. From 1928, he was Shum of SemienProvince. From 1917 to 1918, after Lij Iyasu was deposed, Ayalew Birru was made...
Tigray province. Her mother Yewub-dar Haile Maryam was the daughter of the Amhara chief Haile Maryam Gebre, the former governor of Semienprovince and Hirut...
present-day Debub Wollo and parts of Semien Shewa. It was named after the Amhara people, who originated from the province. Amhara Region Amhara people Chisholm...
in 2001. The net growth rate was 11.80 per cent. The total area of the province was 27800.00 km2 and the density was 23.50 persons per km2. The Northern...
military encounters led to the rampaging of his province of Semien. In 1830, Sabagadis ravaged Semien, having defeated and even chased Wube out of his...
of the Simien Mountains and is 120 kilometres (75 mi) from the Gondar province of Begemder in the northwestern part of Ethiopia. It is located within...
North Wollo (Amharic: ሰሜን ወሎ) also called Semien Wollo, is a zone in Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is bordered on the south by South Wollo, on the west...
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...
dynasty, whose successor was his son-in-law Wube of the Amharic-speaking Semien. Rulers of Tigrayan provinces were almost always of Tigrayan origin; in...
Selale, also known as Grarya, a former province of Abyssinia. Modern Shewa includes the historical Endagabatan province. Shewa first appears in the historical...
in 1886. According to Raymond Jonas, Taytu Betul (or Taitu) was born in Semien, North Gondar, Ethiopian Empire. Scholarly consensus is that she was born...
modern Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region. William Cornwallis Harris described Menz as lying "westward" of Gedem but between that former province and...
Mountain National Park or Semien Mountains National Park, one of the National Parks of Ethiopia Simen Mountains or Semien Mountains (also spelled Simien...
Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Tigray, and Tadbaba Maryam in Wollo Province, Mertule Maryam was a place where animal sacrifices were made for worship...
Tigray 20 September 1748 and of Semien 8 October 1757. Raised to the title of Ras and confirmed as Governor of Tigray, Semien, Seggada, Walqat and 44 other...
Abyssinian Massif, covers the Tigray and Amhara Regions, and includes the Semien Mountains, part of which has been designated the Simien Mountains National...
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