Debre Tabor

Debre Tabor ( Amharic ደብረ ታቦር däbrä tabor ) is a city and woreda in northern Ethiopia. This historic city is located in the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, about 100 kilometers southeast of Gondar and 50 kilometers east of Lake Tana. The name is Amharic and means Mount Tabor in reference to the biblical Mount. Around the city there are at least 48 sources, which have contributed to the development of Debre Tabor.

Information provided by the Central Statistical Agency According to Debre Tabor had 39 052 inhabitants, of whom 20 078 men and 18 974 women in 2005. The Woreda covers an area of ​​approximately 5.85 square kilometers, resulting in a population density of 6675.60 people per square kilometer.

Debre Tabor has an airport ( ICAO code: HADT, IATA code: DBT).

History

Debre Tabor was Ethiopian capital under two emperors: Yohannes IV and Theodore II before this Magdala went to the capital. As a result, the city's population fluctuated in the 19th century among up to 30,000 in the presence of Emperor Yohannes and 5,000 people in his absence.

The experts do not agree on the conditions of the city's founding. Mordechai Abir states that it was founded by Ras Ali I.; , whereas Richard Pankhurst again gives a detailed description of the foundation by Ras Gugsa and adds that according to tradition the founding place was found by supernatural aid. What is certain is that Debre Tabor was the seat of the rulers of the Emperor in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several churches and the ruins of two palaces of that period have been preserved.

Debre Tabor was sacked in 1835 by an army of the province of Lasta. The area surrounding the town was on February 6, 1842 site of the Battle of Debre Tabor, in the Dejazmach Wube Haile Mariam and his allies defeated the armies of Ras Ali II and Debre Tabor plundered a second time. While they celebrated their victory, but they were surprised by Birru Aligaz an ally Ras Ali; Wube and his son was captured. Only after the granting of concessions they were released.

Ras Ali had four churches in Debre Tabor build: Iyasus on a mountain in the southeast, Ennatitu Mariam Mariam and Legitu the east and Tegur Mikael in the north. His mother, the Empress Mennen Liben Amede he built another palace, which was not as big as his own.