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The medieval capital
Within this walled royal enclosure, emperors of the Gondarine period built palaces, churches, and public buildings across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Journey through the highlands
Choose your destination
Select a region, then choose a place to read its published Habesha History articles.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Each pin marks a place discussed in a published article.
Across the centuries
View the interactive timeline of the Habesha people and the associated articles that have been released.
Before local written records
c. 1000 BCE–7th century CE

c. 1000–1 BCE

Early 1st millennium BCE

c. 800–100 BCE

c. 300 BCE–200 CE

8th–18th centuries CE
19th century onwards
Antiquity into the Aksumite era