Debarwa
Debarwa
ድባርዋ دباروا | |
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Market town | |
UTC+3 (EAT ) |
Debarwa (
History
Debarwa was one of the most important settlements in northern Ethiopia during the medieval era. An Ethiopian monk, Brother Antonio, told the Venetian scholar Alessandro Zorzi in the 1520's that it was the "chief city" and residence of the
Conflict flared up again in 1561, during the reign of Emperor
The French traveller
The city was hit hard by a typhus epidemic in 1893, which followed the misery of the Great Famine (1888-1892). A French visitor described Debarwa as "decimated", and all that was left of the once prosperous town were "a few piles of stones, an almost ruined church, and a few wretched hovels".[9]
Demographics
The majority of the population in Debarwa belongs to the Bihér-Tigrigna (
Economy
Local people bring produce such as potatoes, tomatoes, chickens and grain to the market every Saturday. Aside from being a market town, it is also a mining town with resources of high grade
References
- ^ Older writers, such as Samuel Purchas, often use a corrupt form of its name, "Barua".
- ^ R.S. Whiteway, editor and translator, The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1441-1543, 1902. (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1967), pp. xlvif, 9
- Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1997), pp. 234-238
- ISBN 9783515032049.
- ISBN 9780932415196.
- ISBN 9780932415196.
- ISBN 9783515032049.
- ISBN 9783515032049.
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Medical History of Ethiopia (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1990), p. 36