Ankober
Ankober
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Ankober (
Ankober was formerly the capital of the Ethiopian kingdom of
History
Ankober may have formerly been known as Gorobela.[4]
The first Europeans to record their visit to Ankober were the Evangelical missionaries
It was soon rebuilt, and used by Tewodros's appointees Haile Mikael and Seyfe Sahle Selassie as their seat of power.[5] At that time, its population was around 5000, rising to 15,000 during the residency of the imperial court.[1] The stone palace crowned the top of the hill, surrounded with a simple fortification of stakes and branches, while most of the people lived in conical thatched huts scattered across the face of the mountain.[1] The Ankober market in the mid-19th century was held on Saturday, the day after the more important market at Aliyu Amba. The Ankober market was frequented mostly by the local Christians. During the later 19th century, Wehni Azaj Welde Sadeq (1838–1909) was governor of Ankober and chief of the local prison, having jurisdiction over the Afar lowlands until his death.[5]
Around 1890, Menelek II began using Ankober to confine his political prisoners.
Around the time of the
During the Italian occupation, the town consisted of about 3,000 inhabitants living on two hilltops of different height. The Italian Resident lived on the higher hill, and on the lower hill were the two round churches Maryam and Medhane Alem. Around this time the Italians partly moved Ankober to a more accessible plateau. The Italians also carried out a number of bombings against the Arbegnoch in the neighboring area.[5]
Demographics
Based on figures from the
Transportation
The 42-kilometer gravel road between Ankober and Debre Berhan was overhauled in May 2009.[11]
Notes
- ^ a b c EB (1878).
- ^ Ankobar. Encyclopedia Aethiopica. Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
- ^ Philip Briggs, Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide, 3rd edition (Chalfont St Peters: Bradt, 2002), p. 315.
- ^ Based on identification found in the collection of Bernhard Lindahl, "Local history in Ethiopia" Archived June 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The Nordic Africa Institute.
- ^ a b c d e "Local History in Ethiopia" Archived June 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 14 March 2008)
- ^ Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, (London, 1843), p. 90
- ^ Published as Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf...
- ^ a b EB (1911).
- ^ Harold G. Marcus, Haile Sellassie I the Formative years: 1892-1936 (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1996), p. 22.
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Table B.4.
- ^ "42-km Debrebirhan-Ankober road being maintained"[permanent dead link], Ethiopian News Agency, 29 May 2009 (accessed 30 May 2009)
References
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 59
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 58
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