Amhara
Also called Amhara Region .Official name Amhara National Regional State . a regional state in northern Ethiopia: site of Lake Tana. Capital: Bahir Dah.
a region of the former Ethiopian Empire comprising several provinces, large portions of which are part of the modern Amhara Region.
a member of an Amharic-speaking, traditionally agricultural, predominantly Christian people of central Ethiopia, descended from Cushitic peoples already living in the region and Semitic peoples who arrived in the sixth century b.c.
of or relating to the Amhara.
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How to use Amhara in a sentence
He now became sovereign of Tigre and Amhara, the principal provinces of Abyssinia.
Our Soldiers | W.H.G. KingstonTigre and Amhara constitute one kingdom, and Shoa another; they are all divided into a great number of smaller provinces.
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British Dictionary definitions for Amhara
/ (æmˈhɑːrə) /
a region of NW Ethiopia: formerly a kingdom
an inhabitant of the former kingdom of Amhara
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