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7 unusual facts about Harar


Brassica nigra

In Ethiopia, where it is cultivated as a vegetable in Gondar, Harar and Shewa, the shoots and leaves are consumed cooked and the seeds used as a spice.

Camilla Gibb

Gibb's third novel, Sweetness in the Belly (2005), is set against the backdrop of the Ethiopian Revolution and largely takes place in the ancient walled city of Harar.

Education in Ethiopia

There are various officially recognized colleges including: Unity University in Addis Ababa, St. Mary's University College, Alpha University College, Admas University College, People to People College in Harar, and Awassa Adventist College, and others.

That same year, Emperor Menelik II established a primary school in Harar.

Orsola Faccioli

Her son, Giovanni Battista Licata (Naples 1859 - Jaldessa, near Harar, 1886), was a scientist and explorer, who was killed during an colonizing expedition by Count Pietro Porro to Harar, in Ethiopia.

Spotted hyenas in Harar

Written records indicate that spotted hyenas have been present in the walled Ethiopian city of Harar for at least 500 years, where they sanitise the city by feeding on its organic refuse.

Sultanate of Harar

The Sultanate of Harar was a medieval kingdom in Harar, situated in present-day Ethiopia.


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Abyssinian–Adal war

Mohammed Hassan has plausibly argued that because the participants in this conflict weakened each other severely, this provided an opportunity for the Oromo people to migrate into the lands south of the Abay east to Harar and establishing new territories.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Recent audio works include "800 000 Seconds In Harar" (Touch), "Matter Transfer" (iDeal), "The Wonderful World of Male Intuition" (Oral), "There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building" (Lampo), "Rats", "Maggots" and "Bugs" (all three on Laton), "Three Overpopulated Cities ..." (Sub Rosa), "A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture" (Firework Editions) and "Ström" and "Leech" (both on Raster-Noton).

Ejersa Goro

Ejersa Goro is best known as the birthplace of Emperor Haile Selassie I, the tenth child of Ras Makonnen, then governor of Harar, and Woizero Yeshimebet Ali, on July 23, 1892.

Fugnan Bira

Located in the Misraq Hararghe Zone of the Oromia Region, on a high plateau at the southern base of Mount Kondudo, which gives the town a climate similar to Harar.

Harari people

He further suggests that the Great Oromo Migration may have effectively split this putative ethnolinguistic block to the Lake Zway islands, Gurage territory, and Harar.

Jaarso

Jaarso Clan live in the, Jigjiga, Jinacsani, Babeli,Tuliguleed, Hadow, Dhagahle, Bombaas, Fayanbiro, Fayan Hujubo, Ordo, Kombulsho, Gursum, Diri dawa, Dadar, Qulubi, Ejersa Goro, Harar, Haramaya, Baali, Hawaday, Awash Part of Oromia Region and also live in the border of Kenya.

Olol Dinle

In 1931, the Dejazmach ("Commander of the Gate") of Harar, Gebremariam, to whom the Ogaden had been assigned, attacked and destroyed Olol Dinle's fortress at Mustahil and menaced the Italian Rezidenza at Beledweyne, though Gebremariam avoided armed confrontation and withdrew.


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