What the record shows
The Kuskwam complex on Debre Tsehay hill west of Gondar, the palace and church built for Empress Mentewab's retirement, now a walled ruin field.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Kuskwam (Mentewab's Complex), Gondar
The Kuskwam complex on Debre Tsehay hill west of Gondar, the palace and church built for Empress Mentewab's retirement, now a walled ruin field.
- Gondär, Palace of Méntéwwab; photo 1993, courtesy of Michael Gervers
Gondär, Palace of Méntéwwab; photo 1993, courtesy of Michael Gervers
- Kuskwam
Kuskwam is a citadel in Gondar. Recorded on Wikidata as a citadel dated 1750.
- Place
- Gondar · Amhara · Ethiopia
- Date
- 18th century (built for Empress Mentewab)
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, (2003), p. 842
