GONDAR  , properly GvENDAR, a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

Abyssinia, formerly the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the Amharic See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom, situated on a basaltic See also:

• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

ridge some 7500 ft. above the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea, about 21 M . N.E. of See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake See also:

• TSANA

Tsana, a splendid view of which is obtained from the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle . Two streams, the Angreb on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side and the Gaha or Kaha on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west, flow from the ridge, and See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting below the town, pass onwards to the lake . In the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years of the 20th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the town was much decayed, numerous ruins of castles, palaces and churches indicating its former importance . It was never a compact See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, being divided into districts separated from each other by open spaces . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief quarters were those of the Abun-See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

Bed or See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop, the Etchege-Bed or chief of the monks, the Debra Berhan or See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church of the See also:

• LIGHT

Light, and the Gemp or castle . There was also a See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter for the Mahommedans . Gondar was a small See also:

• VILLAGE

village when at the beginning of the 16th century it was chosen by the See also:

• NEGUS

Negus Sysenius (Seged I.) as the capital of his kingdom . His son Fasilidas, or A'lem-Seged (1633-1667), was the builder of the castle which bears his name .