Berehet
Sign in to saveBerehet (Amharic: በረኸት) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Shewa Zone, Berehet is bordered on the south by the Germama River which separates it from Menjarna Shenkora, on the west by Hagere Mariamna Kesem, on the north by Asagirt, and on the east by the Afar Region. The major town in Berehet is Metiteh Bila.
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Vinony's link graph records 165 inbound references to Berehet, and connects out to Amharic, district of Ethiopia and Semien Shewa Zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm3rd_region, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Districts of Amhara Region.
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- Instance of
- district of Ethiopia
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Located in
- Semien Shewa Zone
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Berehet (Amharic: በረኸት) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Shewa Zone, Berehet is bordered on the south by the Germama River which separates it from Menjarna Shenkora, on the west by Hagere Mariamna Kesem, on the north by Asagirt, and on the east by the Afar Region. The major town in Berehet is Metiteh Bila.
Berehet is the location of the Battle of Bereket, fought 19 November 1855. In this battle, the last Shewan nobles to resist Emperor Tewodros II were defeated by his general Ras Ingida, and seeing that further defiance was futile they surrendered the young heir to the Shewan throne, Menelik. Also during 1933 there was a battle between patriots and Italian army near to metiteh bila, finally they were bombed. That area was prohibited from farming activity for a long time and finally memorial built in 2013.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berehet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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