• Qwara (Amharic: ቋራ), also spelled Quara, was a province in now Amhara Region, Ethiopia, located between Lake Tana and the frontier inside present-day...
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  • Qwara may refer to: Qwara Province in Ethiopia Qwara language Qwara (woreda), a district in the approximate location as the province This disambiguation...
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  • dialects, spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel (Jews of Ethiopia) of Qwara Province. It is a dialect of Qimant. It is nearly extinct.[citation needed] Several...
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  • Qwara (Amharic: ቋራ) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Qwara is named after the former province of Qwara, which was in the same area...
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    born in Qwara province. She was a daughter of Dejazmach Manbare of Dembiya by his wife, Woizero Yenkoy. Mentewab married Emperor Bakaffa in Qwara on 6 September...
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    Kaffa (Amharic: ካፋ) was a province on the southwestern side of Ethiopia; its capital city was Bonga. Kaffa is bordered on the west by Sudan, on the northwest...
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    for the power wielded for so long by Mentewab and her relatives from Qwara Province. When Iyoas assumed the throne upon his father's sudden death, the aristocrats...
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    horseman in Abyssinia. Kassa Hailu was born in Qwara west of Gondar, his father was an Amhara nobleman of the Qwara district named Hailegiorgis Woldegiorgis...
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  • also refer to: Kwara United F.C., a Nigerian football club in Kwara Qwara Province in Ethiopia Kwara, a common name of the western brush wallaby This disambiguation...
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    Gojjam (redirect from Gojjam Province)
    century, Gojjam's western neighbors were Agawmeder in the southwest and Qwara in the northwest. Agawmeder, never an organized political entity, was gradually...
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    Shewa (redirect from Showa Province)
    towns of Debre Berhan, Antsokia, Ankober, Entoto and, after Shewa became a province of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa have all served as the capital of Shewa at various...
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  • Agawmeder Begemder Amhara Dembiya Enderta Fatagar Hadiya Ifat Lasta Menz Qwara Semien Tembien Tigray Tselemt Tsegede[citation needed] Wag Wegera Ethiopia...
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    Semien Mountains and Semien Province Tzelmet province,wegera province Capital Amba Yehouda Common languages Ge'ez, Kayla, Qwara, Amharic Demonym(s) Ethiopian...
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  • somewhere five to six days away from Debarwa, possibly Taka (a historical province named after Jebel Taka near modern Kassala). During the Ethiopian-Adal...
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    led to Mentewab summoning her relatives with their armed supporters from Qwara to Gondar to support her. Wubit responded by summoning her own Oromo relatives...
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    the district of Qwara. Kassa accepted the offer but was later embarrassed to find out that the position that he was to be given in Qwara was subordinate...
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  • Ganz (Amharic: ገንዝ), also known as Ganazo or Ganzo was a province surrounding what is now the capital region and city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Originally...
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    frequent trips in disguise, and fell ill while visiting her home province of Qwara. He was put to bed in her father's house and she had nursed him during...
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    his grandmother. Empress Mentewab gathered her relatives from her native Qwara and their forces flooded into Gondar to support her claims. When news of...
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    is the case with Judeo-Tunisian Arabic) or with Ge'ez (as with Kayla and Qwara), many- including Haketia and several forms of Judeo-Arabic- have made frequent...
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    Qwara, in 1818. His father was a small local chief, and his relative (possibly uncle) Dejazmach Kinfu was governor of the provinces of Dembiya, Qwara...
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  • of the oldest local Muslim states. It was centered in the former Shewa province in central Ethiopia. The polity was succeeded by the Sultanate of Ifat...
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  • The state was originally independent until becoming a vassal and later a province due its subjugation by Emperor Amda Seyon I in the early 14th century....
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    century BCE on the island of Elephantine. Later the Persians made Judah a province and permitted Jewish exiles to return and rebuild the Temple. Aramaic became...
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  • also known as Enda Gabtan, Anda Gabtan, or Endagabton was a historical province of Ethiopia. Located north west of the old Fatagar region, bounded by Mugar...
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    federal government and its transformation into a centrally-administered province, Afar leaders met again in Assab in 1963 and supported the creation of...
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    (Friday fast), and the very holy Sanbat (Sabbath). The Beta Israel once spoke Qwara and Kayla, both of which are Agaw languages. Now, they speak Tigrinya and...
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    Wollo group led by Wubit. In 1767, Ras Mikael Sehul, a regent in Tigray Province, seized Gondar, killing the child Iyoas I in 1769, the reigning emperor...
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    Wag Kingdom of Beta Israel Dembiya Gafat Gojjam Waldebba Semien Wegera Qwara Tsegede Wolqayt Kingdom of Damot Dawro Enarya Janjero Kaffa Sheka Wolayta...
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    after invading their region. Doba are reported to have lived in Tigray Province in the 16th century. Later in the seventeenth century the induction of...
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