Dabra Berhān (Ethiopia)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
דברה ברהאן (אתיופיה)
Name (Latin)
Dabra Berhān (Ethiopia)
Other forms of name
Debre Berhan (Ethiopia)
Coordinates
E0393200 E0393200 N0094100 N0094100 (geonet )
Associated country
Ethiopia
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 158611377
Wikidata: Q1181637
Library of congress: no2002077984
OCoLC: oca05848190
Sources of Information
  • ʻĀmatāwi maṣeḥét, 1970:t.p. (Dabra Berhān, Debre Berhan)
  • GEOnet, Aug. 27, 2002:(Dabra-Berhån, PPL 094̊1'00''N 0393̊2'00''E)
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Wikipedia description:

Debre Birhan (Amharic: ደብረ ብርሃን) is a city in north central Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of Amhara Region, about 130 kilometers north east of Addis Ababa on Ethiopian highway 2, the town has an elevation of 2,840 meters, which makes it the highest 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, it is the administrative center of the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region.

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