Ankober (Amharic: አንኮበር), formerly known as Ankobar, is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, it's perched...

Ankober is an H chondrite meteorite that fell to Earth on July 7, 1942, in Shewa, Ethiopia. It is classified as H4-ordinary chondrite. Meteoritical Bulletin...

The Ankober serin (Crithagra ankoberensis) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is a small brown seedeater, about 12 centimeters or 5...

Addis Ababa is located at its center. The towns of Debre Berhan, Antsokia, Ankober, Entoto and, after Shewa became a province of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa have...

Ankober (Amharic: አንኮበር) is a woreda in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Located at the eastern edge of the Ethiopian highlands in the North Shewa Zone...

captured and put under house arrest at the old Shewan royal palace at Ankober. Before 1889, Mengesha Yohannes was considered the Emperor's nephew, but...

state. The locality was in the vicinity of Aliyu Amba and southward of Ankober. In the thirteenth century the Arab historian Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi states...

on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass. Born in Ankober, in Shewa Province, to ethnic Amhara parents Feleketch Yamatawork and Tekle...

had at least five other half sisters. Darge was born and brought up in Ankober, and just like his half brothers received ecclesiastical education in his...

Carlo Conti Rossini initially believed that it was located in modern Ankober, but discarded that theory based on chronological and linguistic grounds...

town in Africa. It was an early capital of Ethiopia and afterwards, with Ankober and Angolalla, was one of the capitals of the kingdom of Shewa. Today,...

Adigrat Adwa Agaro Akaki Alaba (Kulito, Quliito) Amba Mariam Ambo Angacha Ankober Arboye Areka Asaita Asella Assosa Aware Awasa Awash Axum Azezo Alamata...

ivory the Negus had not only in his palaces in Doqaqit, Har Ambit and Ankober, but also hidden in mountain caves. "All in all," concludes Abir, "Showa...

where Emperor Menelik II resided and built his palace, when he came from Ankober and founded Addis Ababa. It is considered a sacred mountain and has many...

In 1839 the European missionary Charles Isenberg toured Shewa's capital Ankober and reported that there were Jews around the capital of Shewa and that...

Ethiopian commanders withdrew to nearby areas to regroup; Abebe Aregai went to Ankober, Balcha Safo to Gurage, Zewdu Asfaw to Mulo, Blatta Takale Wolde Hawariat...

Yekuno Amlak's friendly relations with the Emirs of Harar, he founded Ankober, an alternative capital near their principality. Recorded history affords...

Ras Makonnen Wolde Mikael Wolde Melekot was born in Derefo Maryam near Ankober, in what was then in the province of Menz to his mother Woizero Tenagnework...

audience with Empress Taitu and suggested that she take the Emperor to Ankober as a change of scene that might be beneficial for his health. Taitu had...

the Ethiopians withdrew to nearby areas to regroup; Abebe Aregai went to Ankober, Balcha Safo to Gurage, Zewdu Asfaw to Mulo, Blatta Takale Wolde Hawariat...

suffering. Following his death, his body was buried in his capital of Ankober. Abir, Ethiopia: The Era of the Princes; The Challenge of Islam and the...

arrived in Tadjoura, with their errands being to open up the roads between Ankober and Tadjoura, to enter into communication with King Menelik of Shewa by...

(Hylochoerus meinertzhageni). Birds include Rueppell's chat, the finch Ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis), white-winged flufftail (Sarothrura ayresi)...

Matos Sahle Mariam Formation c. 1682 Abolition 10 March 1889 Residence Ankober Debre Birhan Qundi (1808–1813) Doqaqit (1745–1805) Yifat Appointer Hereditary...

Jimma, until he was captured 11 September 1897, and was first sent to Ankober, then to Addis Ababa. Kaffa was then held as a fief by Wolde Giyogis until...

soldiers deserted him for the returning prince. Abeto Menelik entered Ankober and proclaimed himself Negus. While Negus Menelik reclaimed his ancestral...

though many believe he came from a humble family. He was later taken to Ankober, Menelik's Shewan capital, before Addis Ababa. As a young man he joined...

Anhinga ʻAnianiau Anjouan brush warbler Anjouan scops owl Anjouan sunbird Ankober serin Annam prinia Anna's hummingbird Annobón paradise flycatcher Annobón...

other prominent peaks include Mount Megezez. Towns in North Shewa include Ankober, Debre Birhan, and Shewa Robit. The administrative subdivisions of this...

fighting, devoting his energies to consolidating his kingdom and founding Ankober. This was a practice that his successors followed to the end of the kingdom...