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| gondar book: Gondar Nicholas Luard, 1989-12 Gondar is the exotic, fantastic story of the struggle for control of the fabled 19th-century Abyssinian kingdom. Richly created and lushly told, it is peopled with unforgettable characters both real and imaginary, set in an Africa of violence, spectacle and romance. |
| gondar book: Gondar Nicholas Luard, 1988 |
| gondar book: Gondar, City of Kings Jane Kurtz, 2022 Step inside the 12 gates of Ethiopia’s beautiful ancient city of Gondar, brought to life by student illustrators and filled with side by side text...to support emerging bilingual readers. A UNESCO World Heritage site, Gondar has been a thriving city for thousands of years, since the first kings settled and built the castles and gates for which the region is famous. Now prized for its art and architecture, Gondar remains a vibrant and diverse city of many cultures and faiths.--From Goodreads. |
| gondar book: The Tears of Welkait, Gonder and the Amhara People Fitaye Assegu - Abetew, 2021-01-15 TEARS OF WELKAIT is a riveting historical account of the atrocities committed by TPLF against the people of Welkait, Tsegede and Setit Humara. Born and raised in Gondar and having direct lineage from Welkait, Fitaye Assegu offers a captivating analysis on the regional conflict. He also presents a comprehensive historical account of Ethiopia's history and civilization from the Axumite Kingdom to the ousted TPLF regime. He presents an in-depth analysis of TPLF's illegal annexation of the two North Western Gondar districts of Setit Humara and Welkait/Tsegede to the Tigray region against the will of the people. He makes a resounding argument for righting the wrong perpetrated by TPLF to preserve Ethiopia as one nation with justice for all Ethiopians regardless of ethnicity. |
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| gondar book: A History of the City of Gondar Solomon Addis Getahun, 2006 The city of Gondar served as a permanent seat of government in Ethiopia for about four centuries, during which time the city witnessed the evolution of various quarters such as Ichage Bet, Abun Bet, Kayla Meda, Islam Bet and Digaye. While some of these quarters pre-date the city itself, others are new additions that are related to the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, 1935-1940. This book is of the saga of Gondar: its quarters tell stories of its socio-economic and cultural operations; about its Judaio-Christian and Islamic population and of its glorious past, its decadence and decay. |
| gondar book: The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church Christine Chaillot, 2023-11-06 Christine Chaillots new book, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, presents a topic that is little if at all known outside Ethiopia, even in Christian circles. Moreover, it is a much neglected field in the wider study of African education. It is a teaching based on ancient texts and books, taught orally to the students who will become the future clergy and who will then share their knowledge with the faithful in Church life. The studies of the different disciplines are pursued at different schools and at different levels, in liturgy, theology with commentaries of books (Old and New Testaments, books of the Church fathers and monks) as well as composition of poems (qenes) and iconography. All this teaching presented in the present volume is deeply related to the faith and spirituality of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. This teaching is a unique intangible cultural heritage. One wonders, however, what its future will be in the context of the modern educational methods and social attitudes that have evolved in Ethiopia over the last half-century. |
| gondar book: Sign and the Seal Graham Hancock, 1993-07-02 The quest for the lost Ark of the Covenent. |
| gondar book: The Kindness of Strangers Tom Lutz, 2021-10 Once again, Tom Lutz takes us to seldom-traveled corners of the world—the small towns of western Madagascar, the terraced rice fields in northern Luzon, the scattered homesteads on the Mongolian steppe, the hilltop churches on Micronesian islands, the riverside docks of Dhaka, Ethiopian weddings in Gondar, funeral pyres in Nepal, traditionalist karaoke bars in Bhutan—to bring us random reports of human kindness. You may never visit these places, but Tom Lutz will do it for you. And while global media may serve up a steady diet of division, violence, oppression, hatred, and strife, The Kindness of Strangers shows that people the world over are much more likely to meet strangers with interest, empathy, welcome, and compassion. |
| gondar book: The Great Warbow Matthew Strickland, Robert Hardy, 2011-07-15 The Great Warbow is a vivid and exciting exploration of the bow and arrow as weapons of war. The definitive work on medieval military archery, this lively and informative book is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval warfare or the history of archery. |
| gondar book: An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq; into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile: abridged from the original work. To which is added notes and extracts, from the travels of Dr Shaw, M. Savary, and the Memoirs of Baron de Tott James BRUCE (the Traveller.), 1790 |
| gondar book: The Wife's Tale Aida Edemariam, 2018-02-27 A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: The true story of one indomitable woman caught in the tumult of an extraordinary century in Ethiopia, The Wife's Tale has the sweep and lyrical power that captivated readers of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone. A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over her lifetime her world changed beyond recognition. She witnessed Fascist invasion and occupation, Allied bombardment and exile from her city, the ascent and fall of Emperor Haile Selassie, revolution and civil war. She endured all these things alongside parenthood, widowhood and the death of children. The Wife's Tale is an intimate memoir, of both a life and a country. In prose steeped in Yetemegnu's distinctive voice and point of view, Aida Edemariam retells her grandmother's stories of a childhood surrounded by proud priests and soldiers, of her husband's imprisonment, of her fight for justice--all of it played out against the rhythms of the natural world and an ancient cycle of religious festivals. She introduces us to a rich cast of characters--emperors and empresses, scholars and nuns, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents--and through these encounters takes us deep into the landscape and culture of this many-layered, often mischaracterized country. |
| gondar book: Saba Jane Kurtz, 2003 After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor's palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelve-year-old Saba discovers that she and her brother are part of the emperor's desperate attempt to consolidate political power in the mid-1840's. |
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| gondar book: Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the war of the Rebellion, publ. by R. Rush and R.H. Woods [and others]. United States navy dept, 1898 |
| gondar book: An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq., Into Abyssinia James Bruce, 1798 |
| gondar book: An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile. Abridged from the Original Work. By Samuel Shaw, Esq. Fourth Edition, with Copper Plates James Bruce (the Traveller.), 1800 |
| gondar book: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion United States. Naval War Records Office, 1898 |
| gondar book: A Book of Discovery Margaret Bertha, 2020-08-11 Reproduction of the original: A Book of Discovery by Margaret Bertha |
| gondar book: Snow on the Atlantic Nacho Carretero, 2018-09-06 Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was from where Charon ferried souls to the Underworld. Since the Middle Ages, its shoreline has scuppered thousands of pirate ships. But the history of Cape Finisterre is no fiction and by the late twentieth century a new and exotic cargo flooded the cape’s ports and fishing villages. In Snow on the Atlantic, the book the Spanish national court tried to ban, intrepid investigative journalist Nacho Carretero tells the incredible story of how a sleepy, unassuming corner of Spain became the cocaine gateway into Europe, exposing a new generation of criminals, cartels and corrupt officials, more efficient and ruthless than any who came before. |
| gondar book: In Ethiopia with a Mule Dervla Murphy, 2012 The real acheivement of Dervla's trip across Ethiopia was not surviving three armed robberies or a mountainous thousand-mile trail, but rather her growing affection for and understanding of another race. |
| gondar book: Amharic cultural reader Wolf Leslau, Thomas Leiper Kane, 2001 This collection of essays has two purposes: first to give the advanced student of Amharic a sample of the Amharic writing style and secondly to provide information on Ethiopia's cultural background. The texts were written by several Ethiopian university students some 40 years ago on subjects with which they were most familiar such as naming, christening, wedding, burial ceremony, food and drink, the manner of wearing clothes, house construction in Amhara country, daily work of an Ethiopian woman, landholding disputes, beauty, merchant, mercato, country market, artisans, elderhood, priests, dabtara, monkhood, divination, Christmas, Easter, Addis Ababa, the City of Gondar, Harar City etc. Although some time has passed since the collection was compiled the texts convey a good picture of Ethiopian culture. Each Amharic text is given an English translation on the opposite side. The book is completed by an Amharic-English Dictionary of nearly 90 pages and an index of English words and Amharic lexemes. |
| gondar book: An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile. Abridged ... by Samuel Shaw James BRUCE (the Traveller.), 1798 |
| gondar book: House Documents USA Congress House of Representatives, 1898 |
| gondar book: Ethiopia, the Unknown Land Stuart Munro-Hay, 2019-03-07 Ethiopia, legendary home of the Queen of Sheba who travelled to Jerusalem to meet Solomon, resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant and battleground of the great emperors from Ezana in the 4th century AD to Haile Selassie in modern times, has inspired many travellers and writers since time immemorial. Recently few have journeyed there or, indeed, have any conception of the extraordinary cultural treasures that await visitors. Stuart Munro-Hay knows Ethiopia intimately, having lived and researched there over many years. He has produced the first truly comprehensive guide to the monuments of this beautiful, culture-steeped country, as well as offering a literary companion. Here is a guide to Ethiopia's architecture, geography, peoples, art and history, embracing all the major sites of the land over the ages. It will become the classic reference guide. |
| gondar book: Scribes of South Gondar John Mellors, Anne Parsons, 2002 |
| gondar book: Abyssinia and Its People John Camden Hotten, 1868 Consists of quotations from accounts of various travelers to Abyssinia. |
| gondar book: The Migration Journey Gadi BenEzer, Gadi Ben-Ezer, 2006 Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. Due to various political circumstances they had to leave their homes in haste, go a long way on foot through unknown country, and stay for a period of one or two years in refugee camps, until they were brought to Israel. The difficult conditions of the journey included racial tensions, attacks by bandits, night travel over mountains, incarceration, illness, and death. A fifth of the group did not survive the journey. This interdisciplinary, ground-breaking book focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. The author argues that powerful processes occur on such journeys that affect the individual and community in life-changing ways, including their initial encounter with and adaptation to their new society. Analyzing the psychosocial impact of the journey, he examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture, and discusses personal development and growth. His beautifully written bookof great importancebrings the reader close to a community whose miraculous destiny serves as an inspiration.--Elie Wiesel Gadi BenEzer is a senior lecturer of psychology and anthropology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences in the College of Management in Tel Aviv. In the last two decades, he has worked as a psychotherapist and organizational psychologist with the Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel. He has written extensively on Ethiopian Jews, trauma and life stories, and cross-cultural psychotherapy. His book on the immigration and integration of the Ethiopian Jews has become the main text on the subject in Israel. |
| gondar book: Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce ... Alexander Murray, 1808 |
| gondar book: Beyond Imagination Zamanzima Mazibuko, 2018-12-28 Nanotechnology is sweeping the world. This science of very small particles, which includes genetic modification and the reconfiguring of the arrangement of atoms, presents possibilities beyond imagination. It also has huge implications for all South Africans, especially at home. How exactly is this new technology playing out in South Africa? In countries like India, nanotechnology is being supported as a source of income and innovation. It has the potential to improve both the human condition and a countrys productivity and competitiveness. Is South Africa doing what it should and could to foster nanotechnology and biotechnology, and to advance bioeconomies within the country? And what does the new technology mean for us as consumers? How many of us know that this technology is already being employed in substances like suntan cream and lipstick, with potential health implications for users? The application of nanotechnology poses risks as well as huge benefits, so we need to be particularly vigilant of the ethics and dangers of it. This book provokes discussion around these important topics and relays eyeopening information to those of us who thought all of this was sci-fi. |
| gondar book: Big Book of Best Short Stories Abraham Merritt, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Herbert George Wells, Fitz-James O'Brien, Stanley G. Weinbaum, 2019-11-13 This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. The theme of this edition is: Science Fiction. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Abraham Merritt: - The Pool Of The Stone God - The Last Poet And The Robots - The Fox Woman - The People Of The Pit - The Drone - Through The Dragon Glass - Three Lines Of Old FrenchEdgar Rice Burroughs: - Tarzan's First Love - A Jungle Joke - Tarzan Rescues the Moon - John Carter and the Giant Of Mars - The Ancient Dead - Beyond Thirty - Skeleton Men of JupiterHerbert George Wells: - The Time Machine - A Dream Of Armageddon - The Crystal Egg - The Man Who Could Work Miracles - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid - The Sea Riders - The AppleStanley G. Weinbaum: - A Martian Odyssey - The Adaptative Ultimate - Parasite Planet - Pygmalion's Spectacles - The Mad Moon - Redemption Cairn - The Lotus EatersFitz-James O'Brien: - The Diamond Lens. - The Lost Room. - What Was it? A Mystery. - My Wife's Tempter. - The Golden Ingot. - The Child Who Loved a Grave. - Thw Wondersmith. |
| gondar book: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, James Bruce, 1813 |
| gondar book: The Traditional Interpretation of the Apocalypse of St John in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Roger W. Cowley, 2014-11-13 The aim of this study is to describe the traditional Biblical and patristic Amharic commentary material of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and to present in translation a sufficient sample of the Amharic, and also the Geez, commentary material, that its character can be clearly seen. Accordingly, the study is divided into three parts - a general introduction, an annotated translation of a Geez commentary, and an annotated translation of an Amharic commentary. The book chosen for parts II and III is the Apocalypse of John. |
| gondar book: Office Memo United States. Office of Naval War Records, 1898 |
| gondar book: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 James Bruce, 1813 |
| gondar book: Ethiopian Scribal Practice 7 Steve Delamarter, Marilyn Heldman, Jeremy R. Brown, Sara Vulgan, 2014-11-17 There are many stories to tell about the Ethiopic manuscripts in the collection of the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. The stories about the content of the manuscripts are told in the catalogue (EMTS volume 13). But this volume recounts stories about the book culture that produced the manuscripts. One study provides a general introduction to Ethiopian Christian codicology and the scribal practices in evidence in the collection. Another focuses on the particular story of scribal errors and corrections. And a final study provides an art-historical account of all of the illuminations contained in the collection--even down to the crude drawings in pencil that adorn some pages. Books contain texts. But they are witnesses, first and foremost, to a particular people, at a particular place, at a particular moment in time, who had a particular way of making and using their books. The content of their books tells us about the community's past, about the authoritative texts from antiquity which they valued. But their book culture tells us about their present, about the history of the reception of those works among these people in order to articulate in the present their identity and ethos. |
| gondar book: Health, Wealth, and Family in Rural Ethiopia Andrew J. Carlson, Dennis G. Carlson, 2008 History of health care and development in Kossoye Parish Community. |
| gondar book: The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, 2013-11-19 For decade the Falashas - the Black Jews of Ethiopia - have fascinated scholars. Are they really Jews and in what sense? How can their origins be explained? Since the Falashas' transfer to Israel in the much publicised Israeli air lifts the fascination has continued and and new factors are now being discussed. Written by the leading scholars in the field the essays in this collection examine the history, music, art, anthropology and current situations of the Ethopian Jews. Issues examined include their integration into Middle Eastern society, contacts between the Falasha and the State of Israel how the Falasha became Jews in the first place. |
| gondar book: Accessions List, Eastern Africa Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya, 1972 Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year. |
| gondar book: The New International Year Book , 1926 |
Gondar - Wikipedia
Gondar, also spelled Gonder (Amharic: ጎንደር, Gonder [a] or Gondär; [b] formerly ጐንደር, Gʷandar or Gʷender), is a city and woreda in Ethiopia. Located in the North Gondar Zone of the …
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Gondar during the ‘era of Princes’ (1769-1855) After the death of Walda Le'ul in 1767, the political power of Mentewwab and her allies was significantly reduced within Gondar. She was forced …
Gonder - Brilliant Ethiopia
Gonder was the third capital city of Ethiopia, as evidenced by the crumbling castle ruins that once housed the emperors, kings, and queens of this land. These ruins are now a UNESCO World …
Gonder | Ethiopia, Map, History, & Population | Britannica
Gonder, city, northwestern Ethiopia. It stands at an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,300 metres) on a basaltic ridge from which streams flanking the town flow to Lake Tana, 21 miles (34 km) south.
Exploring Gondar, Ethiopia: Fasil Ghebbi, the Simien Mountains, …
Feb 10, 2025 · One of Gondar’s most famous architectural treasures is the Fasil Ghebbi fortress-palace complex, constructed in the 17th century and functioning as the imperial residence for …
Fascinating Facts About Gondar, Ethiopia - Away Africa
Gondar, a city in northern Ethiopia, is known as the “Camelot of Africa” due to its medieval castles and churches. This former imperial capital served as Ethiopia‘s power center for over two …
Gondar, Ethiopia - Unique Places Around the World
Apr 10, 2018 · Gondar does not blend in; it stands out as a city unique in its own beautiful way. The city among other things is home to Ethiopia’s tallest mountain, Ras Dashen. Gondar is …
The Castles of Gondar: Ethiopia’s Historical and Architectural …
Nov 10, 2024 · Gondar, often referred to as the Camelot of Africa, holds a special place in Ethiopian history, and the Fasil Ghebbi is a must-visit for anyone eager to explore the …
Gondar – Travel guide at Wikivoyage
Gondar (also spelled Gonder) is a historic royal city of Ethiopia, in the northern Amhara region. It was the home of many emperors and princesses who ruled the country from the 12th century …
Gondar: Unveiling the Splendor of Ethiopia's Fortified City
Embark on a captivating journey to Gondar, the majestic fortified city of Ethiopia. Marvel at the architectural wonders of the Royal Enclosure, a UNESCO World Heritage site that showcases …
Gondar - Wikipedia
Gondar, also spelled Gonder (Amharic: ጎንደር, Gonder [a] or Gondär; [b] formerly ጐንደር, Gʷandar or Gʷender), is a city and woreda in Ethiopia. Located in the North Gondar Zone of the …
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
Gondar during the ‘era of Princes’ (1769-1855) After the death of Walda Le'ul in 1767, the political power of Mentewwab and her allies was significantly reduced within Gondar. She was forced …
Gonder - Brilliant Ethiopia
Gonder was the third capital city of Ethiopia, as evidenced by the crumbling castle ruins that once housed the emperors, kings, and queens of this land. These ruins are now a UNESCO World …
Gonder | Ethiopia, Map, History, & Population | Britannica
Gonder, city, northwestern Ethiopia. It stands at an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,300 metres) on a basaltic ridge from which streams flanking the town flow to Lake Tana, 21 miles (34 km) south.
Exploring Gondar, Ethiopia: Fasil Ghebbi, the Simien Mountains, …
Feb 10, 2025 · One of Gondar’s most famous architectural treasures is the Fasil Ghebbi fortress-palace complex, constructed in the 17th century and functioning as the imperial residence for …
Fascinating Facts About Gondar, Ethiopia - Away Africa
Gondar, a city in northern Ethiopia, is known as the “Camelot of Africa” due to its medieval castles and churches. This former imperial capital served as Ethiopia‘s power center for over two …
Gondar, Ethiopia - Unique Places Around the World
Apr 10, 2018 · Gondar does not blend in; it stands out as a city unique in its own beautiful way. The city among other things is home to Ethiopia’s tallest mountain, Ras Dashen. Gondar is …
The Castles of Gondar: Ethiopia’s Historical and Architectural …
Nov 10, 2024 · Gondar, often referred to as the Camelot of Africa, holds a special place in Ethiopian history, and the Fasil Ghebbi is a must-visit for anyone eager to explore the …
Gondar – Travel guide at Wikivoyage
Gondar (also spelled Gonder) is a historic royal city of Ethiopia, in the northern Amhara region. It was the home of many emperors and princesses who ruled the country from the 12th century …
Gondar: Unveiling the Splendor of Ethiopia's Fortified City
Embark on a captivating journey to Gondar, the majestic fortified city of Ethiopia. Marvel at the architectural wonders of the Royal Enclosure, a UNESCO World Heritage site that showcases …
