Dembiya ( Amharic : ደምቢያ Dembīyā ; also transliterated Dembea, Dambya, Dembya, Dambiya, etc.) is a historic region of Ethiopia , intimately linked with Lake Tana . According to the account of Manuel de Almeida , Dembiya was "bounded on East by Begemder , on South by Gojjam , on West by Agaws of Achefer and Tangha. Lake Tsana , formerly called Dambaya, is in this region." The region was governed by Ahmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi and also served well as his personal residence and seat of government during the Ethiopian-Adal War . The rest of the province was divided among the Adalite soldiers while the native Amhara population served as peasant farmers. Alexander Murray , in his preface to the third volume of Bruce's account, further describes it as "on the east it includes Foggora , Dara , and Alata; on the north-east Gondar , the metropolis, and the rich district beneath it; on the southwest, the district of Bed (the plain barren country) and, on the west, the lands around Waindaga and Dingleber ."
5-513: Dembiya was incorporated into the Begemder province (which previously only included lands to the east of Lake Tana) during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie , and in 1996 became a woreda of the Amhara Region . 12°21′00″N 37°15′20″E / 12.3500°N 37.2556°E / 12.3500; 37.2556 This article about a location in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
10-461: A kingdom, he included it as a subdivision of his empire. Kanfat in southern Begemder was briefly governed by Abubaker Qecchin of Adal in the sixteenth century. The Guzara royal castle; built by Emperor Minas in 1560 in Enfraz, Begemder (60 km (37 mi) east of Gonder) as a site of royal residence and camp a century before Emperor Fasilides founded and built the castles of Gondar . During
15-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Ethiopian history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Begemder Begemder ( Amharic : በጌምድር ; also known as Gondar or Gonder ) was a province in northwest Ethiopia . The alternative names come from its capital during the 20th century, Gondar . A plausible source for the name Bega
20-542: Is that the word means "dry" in the local language, while another possible interpretation could be "sheep," where rearing of sheep is beg in Amharic . Thus, Begemder likely refers to "land that rears sheep" or "the dry area." Another etymology is that the first two syllables come from the Ge'ez language baggi` for sheep ( Amharic : beg medir ) "Land of Sheep." Beckingham and Huntingford note that Begemder originally applied to
25-510: The country east of Lake Tana , where water is scarce, and concluded, "The allusion to the lack of water suggests Amharic baga , "dry season," as a possible source of the name." The earliest recorded mention of Begemder was on the Fra Mauro map , (c.1460), where it is described as a kingdom. While Emperor Lebna Dengel , in his letter to the King of Portugal (1526), also described Begemder as
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