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AMHARA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 852 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMHARA  , the central

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province of
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Abyssinia . The
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chief
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town,
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Gondar (q.v.), by which name the province is also known, was the
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residence of the
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negus negusti, or
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emperor, of Abyssinia from the
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middle ages up to 1854 . The speech of the inhabitants, Amharic, which differs in several features from the dialects spoken in
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Tigre and
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Shoa, is the
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official
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language of Abyssinia .

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