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Debre Werq
Debre Werq is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq (East) Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2489 meters above sea level. The settlement is known for its church and a hilltop monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, around which the community grew. It is the larger of two towns in Enarj Enawga woreda.
== History ==
An early mention of Debre Werq is around 1620, when the Tulema Oromo were said to have devastated Gojjam as far as Debre Werq.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 11 March 2009)〕 Its next mention is in 1684, in an itinerary of Emperor Iyasu I.〔G.W.B. Huntingford, ''The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704'', (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 204〕 Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia met with Ras Ali II here in the mid-19th century, describing the town as sitting on a round hill with the church at its summit; the town encircling the church almost extended down to the base of the hill. A debtera, who was head of the church, also appeared to be the civil head of the town.〔 Charles Beke, who visited Debre Werq 25 April 1842, described the town was not only located "on a conical eminence", located the hill at "the fork of two small streams Tazza and Zinjut." (Both of these streams are tributaries of the Chee.)〔Charles T. Beke, ("Abyssinia: Being a Continuation of Routes in That Country", ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London'' ), 14 (1844), p. 16〕
Paul B. Henze describes visiting the church at Debre Werq in the early 1970s, an event which included finding the church being rebuilt from the foundations, and an unpleasant encounter with a monk over wanting to view the church's collection of manuscripts.〔
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