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Encyclopedia Britannica



MAGDALA (more correctly MAKOALA)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 301 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAGDALA (more correctly MAKOALA) , a natural stronghold in the country of the Wollo Gallas, Abyssinia, about 250 M. W. of Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden, in 11 22' N., 390 25' E. The basaltic
plateau
  of which it consists rises 9110 ft. above the sea. It is about three-quarters of a mile in length by less than half a mile in breadth, and lies more than a thousand feet higher than the neighbouring plain of Arogie. Chosen about 186o by the emperor
Theodore
  of Abyssinia as his principal stronghold in the
south
 , Magdala owes its celebrity to the fact that, as the place of imprisonment of the English captives, it became the goal of the
great
  English Expedition of 1868. At the time of its capture it contained huts for a population of about three thousand. The whole
rock
  was burned bare by order of the
commander
  of the British force, Sir Robert Napier, who, on being raised to the peerage for his services on this occasion, took the title of Lord Napier of Magdala. The
plateau
  was subsequently refortified by the Abyssinians.
See Clements Markham, History of the Abyssinian Expedition (1869) ; and H. Rassam, British Mission to
Theodore
  (1869).


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