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Amba Alagi
Amba Alagi is a mountain, or an amba, in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi Zone of the Tigray Region, Amba Alagi dominates the roadway that runs past it from the city of Mek'ele south to Maychew. Because of its strategic location, Amba Alagi has been the location of several battles. The Battle of Amba Alagi was the first in a series of battles between General Baratieri and Emperor Menelik during the First Italo-Ethiopian War. As Anthony Mockler describes it,
: It was () real ''amba'', flat-topped, covered with crevices and canyons and caves, impregnable on the north and north-east where the Tug Gabat ran round its flanks through precipitous ravines, falling steeply away in the rear to the spur of Antalo, behind which lay the broad plain of Mahera.〔Anthony Mockler, ''Haile Selassie's War'' (New York: Olive Branch Press, 2003), p. 97.〕
==History==
The first mention of Amba Alagi is in the Chronicle of Emperor Baeda Maryam (1468–1478 AD), who personally led an expedition against the Dobe'a, who lived around Amba Alagi and raided the caravan routes. In the early 19th century, ''Ras'' Wolde Selassie controlled the amba, and used it on 18 August 1811 to imprison Gebre Guro, the brother of Sabagadis, for 18 months because he had rebelled against the ''Ras''.〔Nathaniel Pearce, (J.J. Halls, editor), ''The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce'' (London, 1831), vol. 1 p. 88〕 The road built from the coast south to Magdala during the British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia passed through Amba Alagi.〔C. R. Markham, ("Geographical Results of the Abyssinian Expedition", ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society'' ), 38 (1868), p. 37〕 A generation later, the mountain was the scene of a battle in February 1889 between ''Ras'' Alula Engida and ''Ras'' Seyoum Gebre in which Alula was wounded.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 3 January 2008)〕
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