Architecture & ruins
Ras Alula’s palace on a hill overlooking Asmara
19th-century illustrationAsmara1 image
A sketch of the hilltop palace of Ras Alula with thatched-roof buildings overlooking the town of Asmara.
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A sketch of the hilltop palace of Ras Alula with thatched-roof buildings overlooking the town of Asmara.
J. Theodore Bent, *The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893*, 1896, p. 19. Image: Ethiopia Engraved / Link Ethiopia.
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