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Debarq (also spelled Dabareq and Debark, Amharic ደባርቅ) is a town in northern Ethiopia, 90 kilometers north of Gondar on the highway between Gondar and Axum and in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region. It has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2850 meters above sea level.〔Ethiopian Roads Authority, ''Gondar-Debark Road Project: Review of Environmental Impact Assessment'', February 2007, p. 13. The geographical coordinates and elevation for Debarq are disputed: four other possible values are listed at ("Local History in Ethiopia" ) (pdf), The Nordic Africa Institute website〕 Debarq is the closest town to the Semien Mountains National Park, and is the location of the park headquarters. == History == Debarq's prosperity was due to its location on the Gondar-Massawa trade route; it is one of the stations on a route of the 1840s, according to a list compiled by Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie in his ''Geodesie d'Ethiopie''.〔G.W.B. Huntingford, ''Historical Geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704'' (London: British Academy, 1989), p. 255.〕 Richard Pankhurst notess that by the early 19th century its market was important enough to be one of six in Ethiopia requiring a ''nagadras'' ("head of the market") to oversee it and collect the fees.〔Richard Pankhurst, ''Economic History of Ethiopia'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie University, 1968), p. 520〕 The revenue from taxes levied on the marketplace in the 1830s paid the governor of Semien province 3,000 Maria Theresa Thalers and about as much to the ''nagadras''.〔Samuel Gobat, ''Journal of Three years' Residence in Abyssinia'', 1851 (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969), p. 149〕 During a clash with his rebellious nephews, Emperor Tewodros saw his close friend and advisor John Bell killed in battle here in 1860. Although his nephews were killed in the skirmish, and their 1700 followers immediately surrendered, he extracted vengeance the next day by beheading all of their men.〔"Local History in Ethiopia," The Nordic Africa Institute website〕 The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front launched an offensive against the 603rd Army Corp of the Derg, and after destroying the government forces stationed at Debarq, they controlled the town 3 January 1989.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Debarq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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