Both settlements lay on the borders of the former provinces of Agame and Enderta at the edge of the Ethiopian highlands.
The land around the base of the mountain was known as the Enderta.
Chelekot is the birthplace of Ras Araya Dimtsu of Enderta chief crown counciler to Emperor Yohavenss IV of Ethiopia 1867-1889.
They were first described, during the reign of Emperor Ba'eda Maryam (r. 1468-1478), as inhabiting the region between Enderta (in Tigray province) and Lake Ashenge (Today in Tigray Region, formerly part of the Amhara province of Wollo), neighboring the Afars of the vassal Dankali Sultanate on the east.
According to the 16th century Gadl (or Vita) of his pupil, Ananya, Ewostatewos was born in the Tsira` north east of Mekelle, part of Enderta province, now located with in Enderta wereda, near where he would later found the monastery of Debre Tserabi.
(Leul) (Ras) Mangasha Seyum was born in 1926 in Dengolat, a village in Enderta county, part of Tigray province of Ethiopia .
Through the old aristocratic families of Tembien and Enderta districts of Tigray, Empress Dinginesh could trace her lineage to the Solomonic dynasty through at least two female links.
He was born in 1831 to Mercha, Shum (or "governor") of Tembien, and his wife Woizero (or "Dame") Silass Dimtsu (Amata Selassie), who was the daughter of Dejazmach (roughly equivalent to "Duke") Dimtsu Debbab of Enderta the nephew of the powerful Ras Wolde Selassie of Enderta.
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Enderta is bordered on the west by Tembien, on the southeast by Wag, the south by Raya and Azebo, on the east by Aseb awraja of Afar (Ethiopia's former port), and on the north by Kilete Awla'elo, Agame and Adwa.