Gondar

American  

[gon-der] / ˈgɒn dər /

Or Gonder

noun

1. a city in the Amhara Region of northern Ethiopia, north of Lake Tana: once the capital of the former Ethiopian Empire.

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Gondar British  

/ ˈɡɒndɑː /

noun

1. a city in NW Ethiopia: capital of Ethiopia from the 17th century until 1868. Pop: 191 000 (2005 est)

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Etymology

Origin of Gondar

First recorded in 1700–10; from Amharic Gondar, Gonder

Example Sentences

The 23-year-old from South Gondar says government soldiers entered her house on 6 January to ask for information, a routine army practice.

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Enat says three men, dressed in army uniform, entered her home in South Gondar and began asking questions about her family background and whether Fano fighters had visited the beer hall where she worked.

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Celebrations have been taking place in Ethiopia's historic holy city of Gondar for the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festival of Timket.

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Saturday's main event took place after pre-sunrise rituals, and hundreds of youngsters used the pool in front of one of Gondar's fortresses to get baptised.

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Priests carried tabots into one of the fortresses in Gondar, where they will be kept until the end of the festivities.

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