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Encyclopedia Britannica



ADOWA (properly ADUA)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 214 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
ADOWA (properly ADUA) , the
capital
  of Tigre, northern Abyssinia, 145 M. N.E. of Gondar and 17 M. E. by N. of Axum, the ancient
capital
  of Abyssinia. Adowa is built on the slope of a hill at an
elevation
  of 65oo ft., in the midst of a
rich
  agricultural
district
 . Being on the high road from Massawa to central Abyssinia, it is a
meeting
 -place of merchants from Arabia and the Sudan for the exchange of foreign merchandise with the products of the country. During the wars between the Italians and Abyssinia (1887-0) Adowa was on three or four occasions looted and burnt; but the churches escaped destruction. The
church
  of the Holy Trinity, one. of the largest in Abyssinia, contains numerous
wall
 -paintings of native art. On a hill about 22 M. north-west of Adowa are the ruins of Fremona, the headquarters of the Portuguese
Jesuits
  who lived in Abyssinil during the 16th and 17th centuries. On the 1st of
March
  1896, in the hills north of the town, was fought the battle of Adowa; in which the Abyssinians inflicted a crushing defeat on the Italian forces (see ITALY, History, and ABYSSINIA, History).


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