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The Best Attractions In Tigray Region

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Tigray Region is the northernmost of the nine regions of Ethiopia. Tigray is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob and Kunama peoples. Tigray is also known as Region 1 according to the federal constitution. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the 6th largest by area, the 5th most populous, and the 5th most densely populated of the 9 Regional States. Tigray's official language is Tigrigna. Tigray is situated between 12°–15° N and 36° 30' – 40° 30' E and comprises 53,638 square kilometres Tigray has ca. 5.3 million inhabitants. The greatest part of the population are agriculturalists, contributing 46% to the regional gross domestic pr...
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The Best Attractions In Tigray Region

  • 1. The Ruins of Aksum Axum
    The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts into the Guardafui Channel, lying along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden and the southwest Red Sea. The area is the easternmost projection of the African continent. The Horn of Africa denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Regional studies on the Horn of Africa are carried out, among others, in the fields of Ethiopian Studies as well as Somali Studies.
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  • 2. Abuna Yemata Guh church Hawzen
    Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in the Hawzen woreda of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres and has to be climbed on foot to reach. It is notable for its dome and wall paintings dating back to the 5th century and its architecture.
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  • 5. Chapel of the Tablet Axum
    The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Ethiopia, and claims to contain the Ark of the Covenant. It is located in the town of Axum, Tigray. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana the first Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Axum , during the 4th century AD, and has been rebuilt several times since then.
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  • 8. Wukro Chirkos Church Wukro
    Wukro (also transliterated Wuqro; formerly known as Dongolo is a town and separate woreda in northern Ethiopia. It's located in the Misraqawi zone of the Tigray region on the Asmara-Addis Ababa highway . Wukro is surrounded by Kilte Awulaelo woreda. The rock-hewn churches around Wukro are the town's most distinctive landmarks; in the early 20th century the town's name was changed from Dongolo to the Tigrigna word for a structure carved from the living rock, Wukro.
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  • 9. Archeological Museum Axum
    For the movement associated with William F. Albright and also known as biblical archaeology, see Biblical archaeology school. For the interpretation of biblical archaeology in relation to biblical historicity, see Historicity of the Bible and List of artifacts in biblical archaeology, for the magazine see Biblical Archaeology Review.Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible, be they from the Old Testament or from the New Testament, as well as the history and cosmogony of the Judeo-Christian religions. The principal location of interest is what is known in the relevant religions as the Holy Land, which from a Western perspective is also called the Middle East....
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  • 12. Yeha Archaeological Site Tigray Region
    Yeha is a town in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the northern Tigray Region in Ethiopia. It served as the capital of the pre-Aksumite kingdom of D'mt.
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  • 14. Emperor Yohannes IV Palace Mek Ele
    Yohannes IV , born Lij Kaśa Mercha and contemporaneously also known in English as Johannes or John IV, was ruler of Tigray 1867–71, and Emperor of Ethiopia 1872–89. He is remembered as one of the leading architects of the modern state of Ethiopia.
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