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Atsbi
Atsbi (Ge'ez: ኣጽቢ) (officially known as Atsbi Endaselase Ge'ez: ኣጽቢ እንዳስላሴ ) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone of the Tigray Region, about 50 kilometers northeast of Qwiha, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2630 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Atsbi Wenberta woreda.
== Overview ==
Mordechai Abir notes that, along with Ficho, Atsbi was an important center of trade in the blocks of salt called ''amoleh'', which was used as late as the 20th century as currency. Both settlements lay on the borders of the former provinces of Agame and Enderta at the edge of the Ethiopian highlands.〔Mordechai Abir, ''Ethiopia: The Era of the Princes; The Challenge of Islam and the Re-unification of the Christian Empire (1769-1855)'' (London: Longmans, 1968), p. 47〕 Here caravans brought thousands of ''amolahs'' from the salt deposits in the Afar Depression, which were then sold to traders for about 100 to one Maria Theresa Thaler; these merchants then transported the blocks west to Adwa, Axum and Gondar, and south to Gojjam and beyond as far as Ennarea and the Kingdom of Kaffa where they sold them at a profit.〔The rate of exchange between the two items varied widely, from 80 ''amolahs'' to the Thaler to as many as 110. See the figures and sources in Richard K. P. Pankhurst, ''Economic History of Ethiopia'' Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), pp. 461ff〕
The Italians occupied Atsbi on 12 November 1941, after clashing with the troops of ''Dejazmach'' Kassa Sebhat.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 18 December 2007)〕 The refugee camp at Atsbi, along with the one at Korem, were shown on BBC television on 23 and 24 October 1984 as an example of the devastation of the 1983–85 famine.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 10 January 2008)〕
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