Karl Square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Karlheinz Böhm Square in Addis Ababa, commonly known as Karl Square. Karlheinz Böhm founded the humanitarian organisation Menschen für Menschen.
Karl Square in Addis Ababa
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Karl Square view, Addis Abeba (Addis Ababa), 2014
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Meskel Square or Revolutionary Square in Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Traditionally, the Meskel bonfire in Addis Ababa was lit by the Emperor of Ethiopia accompanied by members of the Imperial family, the nobility and high officials of the Orthodox Church and the government. The bonfire was initially lit in the square near the southern gate of St George's Cathedral during the reigns of Emperor Menelik II and Empress Zewditu, but was moved to its present location in the specifically constructed Meskel Square by Emperor Haile Selassie.
Following the fall of the monarchy in 1974, Meskel Square was renamed Abiot or Revolution Square. It was greatly expanded so that it could accommodate the annual Revolution Day and May Day parades on September 12 and May 1. Three gigantic portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin were erected in the square. The population of Addis Ababa would joke that these were the new trinity.[citation needed] Meskel bonfires continued to be lit there however for a number of years, with the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church lighting the bonfire in place of the Emperor. Between 1988 and 1991, the officially atheist government ordered the Meskel celebration to be moved back to the small square outside the southern gates of St. George Cathedral. After the fall of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the short lived government of General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan restored the original name of Meskel Square, and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front government returned the Meskel celebration to the square.
The square is often used for other secular purposes. Concerts, parades, and various other government and public events are held there. Political parties often hold rallies in the square. Part of the public ceremonies surrounding the re-burial of Emperor Haile Selassie took place in the square as well. The annual Great Ethiopian Run passes through Meskel Square. The national monument in memory of those massacred by the Derg regime in the Red Terror of the 1970s has been built at the eastern entrance to the square, and the remains of many victims from that period have been buried there : the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum has been inaugurated in February 2010.
Karl Marx chilling in Addis!
Karl Heinrich Marx..1818-1883.
The history is long and maybe boring, but, somehow, this dude ended up with a statue in front of the AA University. This place is right across the street from the 4 kilo campus (I think or 6 kilo?)..in a garden of this cafe looking joint. Obviously it has been there for a while as it was built sometime during the Derg era.
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Addis Ababa New Tramway Line in Mesqal Square
The works of the new tramway/light railway line in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in Mesqal Square
Ethiopia ./Etiopia ..To the South - From Addis Abeba to Arba Minch /III / blisko celu
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Festival in Ethiopia, Ambo City 2007 - Karl Hargestam
Great Gospel Festival in Ethiopia
Addis/ Mexico Square heading to Lidetta.
Night traffic timelaps video- Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa Night Traffic time-laps video recorded with iphone 5 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. we created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (
Statue of Karl Marx - Addis Ababa University
This is a statue of Karl Marx erected In front of Addis Ababa Univesrity, Sidist Kilo campus during the Socialist regime of Dergue ousted 20 years before. I shared it here because it's a historical marker and not to reflect my political ideology. It was filmed on Saturday, January 08, 2011.
Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia
This a view of the entrance to Addis Ababa University. It has a beautiful campus. Along with what was the former presidential palace.
Addis Ababa University was founded as a two-year college in 1950 by a Canadian Jesuit, Dr Lucien Matte, S.J., at the request of Haile Selassie. It began operations the following year. Over the following two years an affiliation with the University of London was developed. The writer and theorist Richard Cummings served as a member of the Faculty of Law in the 1960s.
As part of their sweeping changes, the Derg ordered Addis Ababa University temporarily closed March 4, 1975 and dispatched its 50,000 students to the countryside to help build support for the new regime. The university offered its first Master's programs in 1979 and its first PhD programs in 1987.
Three top university administrators resigned their posts in December 2002 in protest against increasing government interference in internal university matters. Government officials wanted the University to change its system of student evaluations to conform to a gemgema (self-criticism) system favored by the ruling party.
In 2009-2010 there were 20,701 enrolled undergraduate students, 7,127 graduate students, and 14,669 continuing education students, making a total student body of 42,497.
September 04/09/17 Addis Ababa Ethiopia atlas Area flooding
5.Tag 11.07.2016 Karls Square
Der Karls Square ist ein Kreisverkehr in dessen Mitte das Denkmal von Karl- Heinz Böhm von dem äthiopischen Staat Ihm zu ehren aufgestellt wurde. Karl-Heinz Böhm gilt in Äthiopien als Nationalheld und hat vielen Menschen dort geholfen.
Addis Ababa New Tramway Line near Mexico Square
The works on the light railway line in Addis Ababa, Ethiopie
Pushkin Square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
A revolving view of Pushkin Square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, taken from the back of a public minibus - But where is Pushkin? Find out more about this conundrum on Uthiopia.com:
Greener Ethiopia
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UNUSED 7 10 81 RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL IN ADDIS ABABA
(7 Oct 1981) Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church take part in religious festival; banners depicting heads of Karl Marx Friedrich Engels and Lenin hang over mass celebration in Revolution Square, where Patriarch, Abuna Tekle Haimanet, conducts religious ceremony
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Addis Ababa Mekanissa to Gofa Sefer Traffic 11/25/2013