- Amba
Geshen is the name of a
mountain in
northern Ethiopia. It is in Amb****el,
South Wollo Zone of the
Amhara Region,
northwest of Dessie, at a latitude...
-
Wallis Budge adds the
tradition that Jin
Asgad initiated the use of Amba
Geshen as a
royal prison for
troublesome relatives of the Emperor, when he was...
- ground. The
original term in
Amharic indicates a
mountain fortress. Amba
Geshen, for example, is a
historically significant amba
where members of royal...
- (Amharic: ጃንጥራር) was a
title of the
Ethiopian Empire given to the
ruler of Amba
Geshen.
Jantirar is
borne historically by the head of the
family holding the mountain...
-
Tekle Maryam, two
monasteries near the
former imperial cemetery on Amba
Geshen. An
inscription of 359
found at Tixter, in the
neighbourhood of Sétif in...
-
Almeida remarks that the
descendants of
Takla Maryam had been
taken from Amba
Geshen by
Emperor Zara
Yaqob and "exiled to hot
lands where there are many diseases";...
-
country undivided. The
potential royal rivals were
incarcerated at Amba
Geshen until the site was destro**** in 1540
during the Ethiopian-Adal war; then...
- his
ascension as
Emperor of Ethiopia), was
tasked with
protecting Amba
Geshen.
Believers contend that the
monastic life is the
highest stage of Christian...
- Amara,
rather than Abora.
Mount Amara is a real mountain,
today called Amba
Geshen,
located in the
Amhara Region of
modern Ethiopia,
formerly known as the...
- in the 1955
Ethiopian constitution.
Yekuno Amlak was the
local ruler of
Geshen and Amb****el
around the Lake Hayq region.
where he was
educated at Lake...
