Gore is a town in southwestern Ethiopia. Located south of Metu in the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia Region. Gore is known for its honey. The map attached to C. W. Gwynn’s account of his 1908/09 triangulation survey of southern Ethiopia shows that Gore had a telegraph station. During the 1960s, experimental tea plantations were […]

Asosa is a town in western Ethiopia and the capital of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region (or kilil) of Ethiopia. A Belgian force from the Congo captured Asosa 11 March 1941, destroying the Italian 10th Brigade and capturing 1,500 men. During the Ethiopian Civil War, with help from the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front the Oromo Liberation Front […]

Beica (also called Beigi, Begi, Germus, Bega) is a town in southwestern Ethiopia. Beica is the administrative center of Begi woreda. Beica has enjoyed telephone service since the 1930s. The school in Beica started in 1953 as an elementary school (grades one through six), and in 1975 was upgraded to a junior secondary school, also […]

Detail InformationEdit The Obelisk of Axum is a 1,700-year-old, 24-metres (78-foot) tall granite stele/obelisk, weighing 160 tonnes, in the city of Axum in Ethiopia. It is ornamented with two false doors at the base and features decorations resembling windows on all sides. The obelisk ends in a semi-circular top part, which used to be enclosed […]

Detail InformationEdit Bab al-Nasr in Islamic Cairo is a massive fortified gate with rectangular stone towers flanking the semicircular arch of the eastern Portal. The original Bab al-Nasr was built south of the present one by Fatimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli under Imam Moiz when the city was first laid out. Later Vazir Badr al-Jamali under […]

Detail InformationEdit The Aqmar Mosque is one of the few remaining mosques in Cairo, Egypt dating from the Fatimid era. It was built in the under vizier al-Ma’mun al-Bata’ihi during the caliphate of Imam al-Amir, son of Mustansir. The mosque is located on north Muizz Street, with several significant monuments located nearby, including the Qalawun […]

Detail InformationEdit The Pyramid of Khafre, also known as the Pyramid of Chefren, is the second-largest of the ancient Egyptian pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khafre (Chefren). The pyramid is built of horizontal courses. The stones used at the bottom are very large, but as the pyramid rises, the stones […]

Detail InformationEdit The White Pyramid of Amenemhat II is located in the pyramid field at Dahshur, Egypt, and is now nothing more than a pile of rubble, having been heavily quarried for stone. The remaining limestone rubble has given rise to its modern name. The pyramid is surrounded by a large rectangular enclosure wall. A […]

Detail InformationEdit The Pyramid of Khafre, also known as the Pyramid of Chefren, is the second-largest of the ancient Egyptian pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khafre (Chefren). The pyramid is built of horizontal courses. The stones used at the bottom are very large, but as the pyramid rises, the stones […]

Detail InformationEdit Fortaleza San Felipe is a historic Spanish fortress located in the north of Dominican Republic in the province of Puerto Plata. Is also known as El Morro de San Felipe and was used to protect the City of Puerto Plata from pirates and corsairs. It is located on a hill at the Puntilla […]