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Fremona (Tigrinya: ፍሬሞና, fəremona) was a town in
Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It was
about a mile in cir****ference and was
flanked with towers. The town served...
- "Gondarine period". He
expelled Jesuits,
reclaimed lands, and
relocated them to
Fremona.
During his rule,
Fasilides constructed the
iconic royal fortress, Fasil...
- Ethiopia, John Gabriel, on 11 May, and four days
later had made his way to
Fremona, the
Jesuit base in Ethiopia.
Unlike his predecessor,
Andre de Oviedo,...
- and
known for its
tenth century gospels. Also
nearby is the
village of
Fremona,
which had been the base of the 16th
century Jesuits sent to
convert Ethiopia...
- the po****tion to
Catholicism was mixed. From
their base in the city of
Fremona, the
Jesuits were able to
convert the
Ethiopian Emperors Za
Dengel and...
-
Ottoman Empire. He then
found p****age to M****awa,
whence he made his way to
Fremona by way of
Debarwa (where he met the
governor of Tigray, Ras Keba Krestos)...
- of the
Jesuits at
Dankaz and
elsewhere in the
empire and
exiled them to
Fremona. When he
heard that the
Portuguese bombarded Mombasa,
Fasilides ****umed...
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spent crossing the
desert into the
Ethiopian highlands, the
party reached Fremona,
where Lobo ****umed the
responsibilities of
superintendent of the missions...
- may gwagwa, 'noisy water'),
which the
Jesuits had
optimistically renamed Fremona,
after the
missionary Frumentius.
About one year into his reign, Bahr Negus...
- at
Fremona (near Adwa), were
oppressed and neglected, but not expelled. At the
beginning of the 17th century,
Father Pedro Páez
arrived at
Fremona, a...
